Why won't smbd and nmbd start automatically on system start?

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 18 12:40:20 UTC 2014


On 06/18/14 20:29, Temlakos wrote:
> I have two computers, one desktop and one laptop. I did clean installs on both. In the process, I retired a third computer that had been running samba without incident for years.
>
> Today I can get samba running on both machines. But: I have to execute two commands:
>
> $ sudo /sbin/smbd -D
> $ sudo /sbin/nmbd -D
>
> by hand, in a terminal (Konsole), every time I start or restart either computer.
>
> The system-config-services app fails to note that smbd or nmbd are even available for starting.
>
> How do I get those two daemons to start automatically, so that I don't have to type those two commands every time? Because until I do, I have no file-sharing capability. (I have yet another computer on my network: a dedicated Windows box that I use for video capturing. I've said on other threads I am not satisfied with the video-capture and DVD authoring support Linux provides, and note that Linux does not support Blu-ray, in playback or especially in burning. So samba is a must for me.) 

And the output of....

systemctl status smb.service

and

systemctl status nmb.service

is?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd



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