Why do my LAN Samba shares no longer work when my internet dies?

English Network/Internet
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I thought Samba shares were handled through the LAN?

But when my internet dies, like I can’t access Google, why do my LAN samba shares no longer work?

What info can I post to make this more useful to debug?

As soon as the internet is back up, samba shares are ‘online’ again…

I’m using openSUSE 12.1

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Next time the internet dies, run these commands:

service nmb status; service smb status; service network status; ifconfig; iwconfig
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Thanks! I’ll do that next time it happens.

It’s a satellite connection so this is frequent.

Last night there was a heavy drop of snow so the satt signal got dropped for most of the evening.