That would be a staring point.
Try to restart smbd and then check the journal for entries
systemctl start smbd.service
journalctl -u smbd.service
journalctl returns this.
any ideas?
Isn't this common after the latest updates? we can't be the only ones effected.
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smbd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit smbd.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'dumped' and its exit status is 6.
raspberrypi systemd[1]: smbd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit smbd.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'core-dump'.
raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
-- Subject: A start job for unit smbd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit smbd.service has finished with a failure.
--
-- The job identifier is 1816 and the job result is failed.
raspberrypi polkitd(authority=local)[13936]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:13931:13
raspberrypi CRON[14031]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
raspberrypi CRON[14032]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/omv-ionice >/dev/null 2>&1)
raspberrypi CRON[14031]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
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