BTW, here is what I see when I run dpkg -l | grep samba:
jason@storage-server:~$ dpkg -l | grep samba
ii python-samba 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 Python bindings for Samba
ii samba 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
ii samba-common 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7
all common files used by both the Samba server and client
ii samba-common-bin 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 Samba common files used by both the server and the client
ii samba-dbg 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 Samba debugging symbols
ii samba-doc 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7
all Samba documentation
ii samba-dsdb-modules 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 Samba Directory Services Database
ii samba-libs:amd64 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 Samba core libraries
ii samba-vfs-modules 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1
amd64 Samba Virtual FileSystem plugins
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Jason Wittlin-Cohen <
jwittlinco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are running an out-of-date version of samba (2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6
> vs. 4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1). In addition, you seem to be missing
> samba-common-bin, samba-dsdb-modules, and python-samba, all of which are
> dependencies of samba.
>
> Try 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall samba'
>
> If that doesn't include install the removed packages, run, 'sudo apt-get
> install samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules python-samba'
>
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Hans Kraus <h...@hanswkraus.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 15.07.2017 um 16:05 schrieb Jason Wittlin-Cohen:
>>
>>> What does 'dpkg -l | grep samba' show?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Hans Kraus <h...@hanswkraus.com
>>> <mailto:h...@hanswkraus.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 15.07.2017 um 14:48 schrieb Jason Wittlin-Cohen:
>>>
>>> Did you run an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday? Debian released
>>> updated Samba packages as part of a security update. However,
>>> the updated packages had dependency issues and were quickly
>>> replaced by new packages. If you attempted to run a
>>> dist-upgrade with the broken packages, it would have installed
>>> samba and samba-core. Check to see whether your samba packages
>>> are still installed.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Hans Kraus <h...@hanswkraus.com
>>> <mailto:h...@hanswkraus.com> <mailto:h...@hanswkraus.com
>>>
>>> <mailto:h...@hanswkraus.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> yesterday, 14. July, about 9:30 pm my SAMBA shares on
>>> Debian simply
>>> stopped working. I did not do anything on the system.
>>>
>>> When I now try to connect to them from Windows 8.1 I do not
>>> see them
>>> in the "Connect Network Drive" window.
>>>
>>> When I enter the address manually I get the error "The
>>> connection isn't
>>> accepted from the remote device ...".
>>>
>>> All texts are my translations from German, so the will be
>>> only
>>> approximately correct.
>>>
>>> Any advice for me and what debug info shall I supply?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Hans
>>>
>>>
>>> No, definitely not. I do updates/upgrades rather infrequently and I
>>> issued (packed in a small script):
>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb
>>> apt-get update
>>> apt-get -y upgrade
>>> apt-get -y autoremove
>>>
>>> only after the error occurred.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Hans
>>>
>>
>> root@robbe:/var/log/samba# dpkg -l | grep samba
>> rc samba 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6 amd64 SMB/CIFS
>> file, print, and login server for Unix
>> ii samba-common 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7 all common
>> files used by both the Samba server and client
>> ii samba-dsdb-modules 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1 amd64
>> Samba Directory Services Database
>> ii samba-libs:amd64 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1 amd64
>> Samba core libraries
>> ii samba-vfs-modules 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7+b1 amd64
>> Samba Virtual FileSystem plugins
>> ii vlc-plugin-samba 2.2.6-1~deb8u1 amd64
>> Samba plugin for VLC
>> root@robbe:/var/log/samba#
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Hans
>>
>>
>
