Comment 13 for bug 572410

after 2 hours of experiences, i have to say that the problem really isn't samba - 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1, or even samba-common-bin. those really are working. the problem is that clients (either another linux or win) can't log in until upstart finishes up nmbd and smbd. and the problem is not with the capabilites of the hardware. it's more than enough 4 what it is supposed to do. it's a bad start 4 upstart.

now it's explained why personal file sharing is requesting apache to run. smbd didn't have this kind of problems with sysv, and it seems that ubuntu is going the win way, adopting buggy revolutionary technology.

it took me over 4 hours to be able to make a share in ubuntu 10.04 lts and be able to see it in both win and lin clients. such task is supposed to take 5 minutes.