Samba broken on fresh MX18

[zimbodel]

I guess this is for the package manager or person who packages MX.
(I also post on LinuxQuestions MX forum, I dont know which one of the two is the main MX forum)

On a default clean MX18 install, Samba fails to start.
Both through apt installation and the MX-PackageManager.

Here is the error output.



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Setting up samba (2:4.5.16+dfsg-1) ...
Failed to preset unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/samba-ad-dc.service is masked.
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on samba-ad-dc.service: No such file or directory
Job for smbd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status smbd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "start" failed.
● smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-03-10 23:58:07 EDT; 12ms ago
Docs: man:smbd(8)
man:samba(7)
man:smb.conf(5)
Process: 28698 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 28698 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 10 23:58:07 Tango systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Mar 10 23:58:07 Tango systemd[1]: smbd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 10 23:58:07 Tango systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
Mar 10 23:58:07 Tango systemd[1]: smbd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 10 23:58:07 Tango systemd[1]: smbd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package samba (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u4) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[fehlix]

(I also post on LinuxQuestions MX forum, I dont know which one of the two is the main MX forum)

This forum.

On a default clean MX18 install, Samba fails to start.

The error seems related to systemd, which is not MX Linux default init system.
You might try to install / setup samba with default booted init-system.

[asqwerth]

I'm confused, I thought samba has always been pre-installed and set up in a default install?

[Eadwine Rose]

As far as I know it is.. you can check/uncheck it in the install.. *shrug*

[timkb4cq]

If you uncheck it in install it doesn't remove the package, it just doesn't start the daemon automatically.