[Milhouse]

Yes ! That build works. LIBREELEC server is visible as soon as it boots up. Thanks.

Good, thanks.

Matter of interest, what was the problem and what did you do to fix it ?

You probably have more partitions in your system than most who run LibreELEC.

At bootup, as each partition is "seen" by udev, the new partition is mounted (/var/media/<blah>) and - if Samba auto-sharing is enabled - the partition is automatically shared by Samba.

In order for Samba to share the new partition the smbd/nmbd/samba-config services must be restarted and the new partition added to the Samba configuration. This means that smbd, nmbd and the samba-config service will be restarted up to 6 times in your case, once for each partition (/flash, /storage plus /dev/sda[2,4,5,6]).

There is a "5 restarts within 10 seconds" default limit in systemd (to prevent units/services going nuts) and unfortunately you were exceeding the 5 restart limit which resulted in the samba-config service eventually failing, which then caused the smbd and nmbd services to fail as they're both dependent on the failed samba-config service. Manually running "smbd" at the command line started the smbd daemon but you'd be missing 1 or 2 shares and nmbd would not be running (no NetBIOS support).

Both smbd and nmbd services already had this restart limit disabled, but samba-config did not. Disabling the restart limit on the samba-config service fixes the issue (and will be backported to the next LE8 official release) - thanks for reporting!