Excerpts from Mike Perrin's message of Mon May 23 20:28:52 UTC 2011: > On a functional level perhaps it is worth considering whether Network > Manager, on stopping, should simply leave the interfaces as currently > configured instead of taking them down. I can make the argument that > Network Manager is a tool to make it easy for the user to control > network interfaces, but Network Manager is not the owner of those > interfaces, the system and user are. If the user makes a connection > using Network Manger and then disables NM, why shouldn't the interface > stay up until the user or a shutdown sequence takes it down?
Mike thats a great point and I think would be a design change for NM. It might then be best to bring that up with the upstream developers. As it stands now, NM does in fact own a network interface that it is set to manage, and so, we must architect the system around that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211631 Title: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown) -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
