Re: Jessie upgrade now means samba is no longer working
On 2015-05-15, Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> I recently upgraded from wheezy to jessie.
>
> I was relying in samba providing guest access to various key folders in
> my home directory for virtual windows machines to have access to key data
>
> After the upgrade samba no longer runs and if I try and start it it says
> "service is masked"
>
> /etc/init.d/smbd and /etc/init.d/nmbd exist and I can use the service
> command to start them
>
> But I don't appear to have these shares available to my virtual windows
> machines.
>
> How can I make it so samba starts automatically (like it used to before
> the upgrade) and how can I make it so it provides guest access to these
> shares.
<--SNIP-->
The quick fix is to call the above services in /etc/rc.local, and check
that the systemd rc-local service is enabled:
systemctl status rc-local.service
There's probably a better way though.
--
Liam
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