Why does the samba service fail to start with the error message 'smb: unrecognized service' ?
Issue
- When trying to start the samba service you receive the error 'smb: unrecognized service'
[root@example.com ~]# service smb start
smb: unrecognized service
[root@example.com ~]#
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- samba
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