Hello, I ran into the same issue on Debian 13. After installing samba the laptop would wait for the 1min30sec timeout for the nmbd service. The laptop did not have a wired connection. It only had a wireless connection, which obviously wasn't active yet at the time nmbd got started.
I tried the wordaround you suggested and disabled netbios in the samba.conf file. This solved the issue for me. I saw you were waiting for feedback, and figured I'd let you know. 🙂 Best regards, Dimitri.
