In "my" CentOS 7 there are only services smb and nmb. I do not need winbind. I use samba with ldap and kerberos. So I use: systemctl enable smb nmb systemctl start smb nmb I use standard samba packages comming with CentOS 7: # rpm -qa | grep samba samba-client-libs-4.8.3-4.el7.x86_64 samba-4.8.3-4.el7.x86_64 samba-common-4.8.3-4.el7.noarch samba-common-tools-4.8.3-4.el7.x86_64 samba-common-libs-4.8.3-4.el7.x86_64 samba-libs-4.8.3-4.el7.x86_64 If you have trouble with starting samba there are posibilities to set higher log level and then see what happens. Mirek Dne 28.5.2019 v 3:36 Jobst Schmalenbach napsal(a): > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:43:41PM +0200, Miroslav Geisselreiter (mg at intar.cz) wrote: >> Hi Jobst, >> >> you can use latest samba package from CentOS 7 - there is no problem with NT >> style domains support (ie. it supports NT style domains). We use servers >> with CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 both with NT style domains. > Phew! > Thank you, this is great news! > > > I had huge trouble to get the samba server started after I ported it onto a CentOS 7 machine. > I tried to start it with > > systemctl start smbd nmbd winbind samba > > and it failed without error messages. > > > So I has asked a question on the Samba mailing list. > They told me I should do this as > > systemctl stop smbd nmbd winbind samba > systemctl disable smbd nmbd winbind samba > systemctl mask smbd nmbd winbind samba > systemctl unmask samba-ad-dc > systemctl enable samba-ad-dc > systemctl start samba-ad-dc > > Can you confirm, you start this with > > systemctl start samba-ad-dc > > > > thanks