After 16.04.1 upgrade Samba will not start
So, finally fixed it. Based on response at Samba does not launch after upgrading to 16.04, I had to purge all samba packages first.
So, I ran:
aptitude purge samba libnss-winbind libpam-winbind samba-dbg system-config-samaba winbind smbclient samba-testsuite samba-common-bin samba-dev samba-doc samba-dsdb-modules samba-vfs-modules
(I don't know where I picked some of those up, I think I was following someone's solution that said to install samba*)
Then I ran
aptitude install samba libnss-winbind:amd64 libpam-winbind:amd64 winbind -f
(make sure correct system architecture is used -- mine is an AMD64).
service smbd start
service nmbd start
then worked!