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I'm having issues starting samba on boot on Debian Jessie. I do not understand how to do it as it seems that the samba script wrapper is deliberately made not to work.

I tried to issue a update-rc.d samba defaults but it will not modify the system configuration to start at boot.

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  • The service will not start at boot even after issuing the update-rc.d command. It seems it is not doing anything
    – Fabrizio Mazzoni
    Feb 22, 2016 at 6:38
  • Jessie uses systemd. What about systemctl enable samba?
    – techraf
    Feb 22, 2016 at 6:42
  • update-rc.d: error: samba Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting.
    – Fabrizio Mazzoni
    Feb 22, 2016 at 6:43

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Reset to default
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Use the following command to enable samba:

$ sudo systemctl enable smbd.service nmbd.service
Synchronizing state for smbd.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d smbd defaults
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d smbd enable
Synchronizing state for nmbd.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d nmbd defaults
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d nmbd enable
$

and to check:

$ sudo systemctl status smbd
● smbd.service - LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smbd)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-02-22 18:56:27 JST; 12min ago
   CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
           ├─3756 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
           └─3771 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

Feb 22 18:56:27 debian smbd[3747]: Starting SMB/CIFS daemon: smbd.
Feb 22 19:03:13 debian smbd[4042]: Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd.
$
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  • this doesn't work for me; I get active (exited) for both daemons and connection refused when I try smbclient -L localhost -U%. Any thoughts? This is driving me mad.
    – Hugh Jones
    May 26, 2016 at 14:09

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