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<p>Hi. I was able to solve this by renaming /etc/init.d/smbd to /etc/init.d/smbd.orig. I still don't understand the root cause, but I believe that something other than the unit file smbd.service was starting smbd early and not waiting for the interface to be
configured. Maybe <span style="color: rgb(36, 39, 41); font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">
systemd-sysv-generator </span>is creating a service unit inappropriately, even though a service unit of the same name already exits in /lib/systemd/system.</p>
<p>Alan<br>
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