How to add samba to startup applications

Question

I have samba installed on ubuntu 14.04 and I want it to start on system boot. Anybody help?

Did you checked this ? http://askubuntu.com/questions/48321/how-do-i-start-applications-automatically-on-login — Gaurav Gandhi, Oct 08 '15 at 09:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '15 at 08:58

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Simply run the following command in a terminal :

sudo update-rc.d samba defaults

answered Oct 08 '15 at 08:58

hg8

I believe it is now called smbd instead of samba, at least in my Ubuntu 18.04... – mjbeyeler Jun 01 '22 at 12:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '15 at 09:01

You can try the following ways. I don't know about samba, but it worked for me in running some other services.

There are three ways to do it.

Alternative 1# Creating New Script in /etc/init.d/

We can create new startup service by creating a new script inside the init.d

directory

Note: Donot forget to make the script executable

Alternative 2# By adding commands to /etc/rc.local

The technique is illustrated by the following example :

vi /etc/rc.local

/path/to/my/script.sh || exit 1
exit 0

Alternative 3# The third way to achieve that is by adding an Upstart Job

    Create      /etc/init/myjob.conf

Add the following entries to the file


description "my Job"
start on startup
task
exec /path/to/my/script.sh

Here in description you can use any name. In the path of exec give the path of the samba binary.

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