On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 21:00:42 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 12/2/18 11:39 PM, john doe wrote: > > If you still want to use samba.service you could try: > > > > $ cd /lib/systemd/system && ln -sf smbd.service samba.service > > > > I don't know if the above command has side effects though. > > It would be nice if the package name and service name matched, but > "service smbd status" works and I don't know systemd, so I will leave > it alone.
AIUI (if I do), SMB is the protocol, and smbd is the daemon that provides it. However, juxtaposing the strings "smb" and "serv*" falls foul of a trademark, hence the coining of "samba" for the name of the implementation. Cheers, David.
