I encountered a problem with samba. I configured samba, and it really worked. however, when I shut the linux down and boot up again, samba would not work until I restart it twice. Print info is as following:

/etc/init.d/smb restart

Shutting down SMB services: Failed
Shutting down NMB services: Failed
Starting SMB services: Ok
Starting NMB services: Ok

And then I restart it again, it seems all ok.

The failure is in shutting down samba. It wasn't running in the first place. Also, the smb and nmb services are separate daemons. smbd is the samba server. nmbd is used to resolve microsoft hostnames and might not be used if you aren't using a client presently.

Go to your services configuration and enable smb for the console/multiuser/networked mode and for the X11 mode. For most distro's that would be run levels 3 & 5, but it depends on which distribution you are running.
On SuSE, Fedora, etal:
Please list your distribution in your LQ user profile. That would help in getting the best answer right away instead of having to request more info.

Looking at the messages you got, it looks like your samba was not started at boot time to begin with (probably was not set to do so). You had to start it first.

TO:jschiwal

Thanks for your advice, I change the configuration as you said and it works.
Therefore I changed the file to enable samba in multi-user with network (3) and multi-user with network and display manager (5), it finally works.

By the way thank you for remind me of updating my profile.

To: Vitalka

I believe you are right, I was just not sure how to change it.