Attempting to save changes to SMB in the Servers section of Linuxconf causes Linuxconf to crash and the data in /etc/smb.conf to be damaged. Future attempts to access SMB data in Linuxconf cause Linuxconf to crash.
*** Bug 7918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This seems to work properly under linuxconf-1.17r2, which should be in the next release of Raw Hide. Please upgrade to it and let me know if it solves the problem for you.
We're disabling the Samba configuration component until it can be thoroughly debugged.