Hello: I have openSUSE 42.2 Leap and samba 4.2.2. I would like to use samba only with localhost interface. In smb.conf I set: [global] bind interfaces only = yes interfaces = lo Unfortunately samba nmb service doesn't start with this setting. # systemctl restart nmb Job for nmb.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status nmb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. # systemctl status nmb ● nmb.service - Samba NMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nmb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2017-08-27 23:53:06 CEST; 5min ago Main PID: 4529 Status: "nmbd: No local IPv4 non-loopback interfaces available, waiting for interface ..." Tasks: 0 (limit: 512) CGroup: /system.slice/nmb.service Aug 27 23:51:36 linux systemd[1]: Starting Samba NMB Daemon... Aug 27 23:51:37 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Supervising process 4529 which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits. Aug 27 23:51:37 linux nmbd[4529]: [2017/08/27 23:51:37.041421, 0] ../lib/util/become_daemon.c:135(daemon_status) Aug 27 23:51:37 linux nmbd[4529]: STATUS=daemon 'nmbd' : No local IPv4 non-loopback interfaces available, waiting for interface ...NOTE...6 (IPv6). Aug 27 23:53:06 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Aug 27 23:53:06 linux systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba NMB Daemon. Aug 27 23:53:06 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 27 23:53:06 linux systemd[1]: nmb.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. (nmb starts if I set "interfaces = lo eth*",but I don't want samba to bind to eth* interface) A google query resulted in a bug report regarding this issue: Debian Bug report logs - #842056 nmbd hangs on service start if only the loopback interface is configured https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842056 If I understand correctly newer samba version should start even if only localhost network interface is configured. Therefore I have updated samba to version samba-4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-1.1.x86_64 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/samba:/STABLE/openSUSE_Le... repo. But with this samba version I get the same error too , nmb service does not start. Is this a samba problem or systemd error? What I want to achieve is to start samba without a real network interface and bind to a virtualbox vboxnet0 interface when it becomes available. I don't want samba to bind to my real network interface (eth*). Any idea? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org