Sudden samba failure

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Well, before you reinstall the whole system, try a partial installation of samba first. I understood your situation that way that your samba service is still not starting anymore

  1. backup /etc/samba/smb.conf, /etc/samba/smb-local.conf, /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf.distributed somewhere and delete these files
  2. sudo systemctl disable samba
  3. sudo rm -R /var/cache/samba
  4. sudo apt-get update
  5. sudo apt-get remove samba and confirm the removal
  6. sudo apt-get install samba smb-app-osmc
  7. reboot

This should give you a virgin samba installation.

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