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I am running Ubuntu Server 18.04.

On 10 December 2018 samba stopped working. I know it was that day because I was backing up my Windows computer to Ubuntu Server every day with Macrium Reflect for months with out issue but ever since that day it has been reporting an error. I did not change or do anything that I am aware of to cause this problem. Ever since that day I have not been able access any samba shares on the Ubuntu Server computer from any other computer (linux or windows) nor can I access any samba shares from the Ubuntu Server computer despite being able to previously with out issue. smbtree was returning nothing. Interestingly nmap was showing ports 139 and 445 to be open when ran on Ubuntu Server but closed when scanned from another computer? I have tried many things to solve this problem including adding client max protocol = NT1 under the [global] section in the smb.conf file. I tried replacing the smb.conf file with a copy of the same file that has samba working perfectly on another linux computer. I tried this, I tried that, nothing worked. So in the end I decided to remove and reinstall samba and start again.

sudo apt-get remove --purge samba samba-*
sudo apt-get autoremove

After reinstalling samba it appears it has installed but will not start.

As near as I can tell the problem is this:

/usr/sbin/smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libreplace.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This post seems to be saying its a bug?

This post seems to be saying I have "installed different and conflicting versions of samba from different sources" but I don't think so. I only ever used apt to install software.

Any true Ubuntu Jedi's out there who can help a wannabe Ubuntu Jedi out?

Thanks heaps :-)

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  • Your first 'post' is for experimental debian only issue solved in 2013 & never affected Ubuntu. Your second assumption is about apt which installs using whatever sources you have added to your system, so it does not disqualify your only using apt. Given you're confused about 'debian!=ubuntu' I'd firstly check your sources as per your second added post, ie. that you've not added sources from another release, or unofficial source & created the issue.
    – guiverc
    Jan 5, 2019 at 4:34
  • Actually the first time I tried to re-install I did sudo tasksel install samba-server, would that cause my problem? In any event would uninstalling according to this [askubuntu.com/questions/820108/… post solve the issue of any conflicting version?
    – Jedi
    Jan 5, 2019 at 4:48

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If we talking about missing libreplace.so.0 library - then it came from libwbclient0 (see search results on packages.ubuntu.com).

So you need to reinstall the package:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libwbclient0
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  • N0rbert you are Ubuntu Jedi :-) I actually tried this but it was the --reinstall option that did the trick. Thank you so much, I spent ages on Google trying to find a solution before posting here. smbtree is still producing no output but that's for a separate question.
    – Jedi
    Jan 5, 2019 at 9:59

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