Defaults, install samba and winbind. Works fine if samba is started first. $ systemctl start winbind $ systemctl start smb Job for smb.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status smb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. $ journalctl -xe Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon... -- Subject: Unit smb.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit smb.service has begun starting up. Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: [2018/12/09 18:35:03.063138, 0] ../lib/param/loadparm.c:784(lpcfg_map_parameter) Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: Unknown parameter encountered: "ntln auth" Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: [2018/12/09 18:35:03.063313, 0] ../lib/param/loadparm.c:1810(lpcfg_do_global_parameter) Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: Ignoring unknown parameter "ntln auth" Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: [2018/12/09 18:35:03.083184, 0] ../source3/auth/auth_util.c:1382(make_new_session_info_guest) Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: create_local_token failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: [2018/12/09 18:35:03.083306, 0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:2000(main) Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands smbd[19662]: ERROR: failed to setup guest info. Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands systemd[1]: smb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Dec 09 18:35:03 minedlands systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon. -- Subject: Unit smb.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit smb.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1648399 ***