Samba on Rasbian Stretch - Unit smbd.service is masked.

[jimjamz]

After installing Samba:

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sudo apt-get update && apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

I receive the following error:

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Failed to start smbd.service: Unit smbd.service is masked.

This error persists when rebooting the Pi and even when attempting to restart both the smbd and nmbd services.

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sudo systemctl -l status smbd

reveals:

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● smbd.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
   Active: inactive (dead)

and the same for nmbd

[jimjamz]

No-one?

The answer was:

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sudo systemctl unmask smbd.service
sudo systemctl unmask nmbd.service

Fixed!