Leap 15: Samba will not start

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After my upgrade to Leap 15, samba will not start.

May 26 14:02:52 jardell 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.
May 26 14:02:52 jardell systemd[1]: smb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 26 14:02:52 jardell systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
-- Subject: Unit smb.service has failed

How do I figure out what is wrong?

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Samba service is working here.

I realize that doesn’t help you. But it indicates that it can work for some people in Leap 15.0

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Did you do an upgrade? Did you have to do anything special?
Thanks,
Jim

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This was a clean install.

I did copy some of the samba configuration from 42.3.

I also turned off the firewall, but not because of Samba (because of NFS).

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It might be an issue with apparmor https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxk5yb6mx7dlybu/smbstartup.png?dl=0
Trying from the services manager gives more information.
I also cannot start my squeezeboxserver.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxk5yb6mx7dlybu/smbstartup.png?dl=0

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I uninstalled smb using the Yast Software Manager, which also uninstalled a zillion (176!!) other things. Then I reinstalled it, and it starts.

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Actually I noticed the same issue after upgrade from 42.3 to 15.
See: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1094881
No solution yet (except restarting smb manually)

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In my case, it works.
But Dolphin refuses to show the workgroup … :expressionless:
While you can navigate the samba network, by inserting the IP address or the name of the computers …

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Firewall perhaps?

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For anybody else experiencing this problem, the quick fix in Comment 2 of the above bug report did resolve the issue for me.

YMMV, naturally.