Debian Jessie samba start on boot

Solution 1:

Use the following command to enable samba:

$ sudo systemctl enable smbd.service nmbd.service
Synchronizing state for smbd.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d smbd defaults
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d smbd enable
Synchronizing state for nmbd.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d nmbd defaults
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d nmbd enable
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and to check:

$ sudo systemctl status smbd
● smbd.service - LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smbd)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-02-22 18:56:27 JST; 12min ago
   CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
           ├─3756 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
           └─3771 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

Feb 22 18:56:27 debian smbd[3747]: Starting SMB/CIFS daemon: smbd.
Feb 22 19:03:13 debian smbd[4042]: Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd.
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