Samba refuses to start and doesn't say why. Legolas:~ # systemctl start smb Job for smb.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status smb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Legolas:~ # journalctl -xe Sep 17 20:27:25 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon. -- Subject: Unit smb.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit smb.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Sep 17 20:27:25 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: smb.service: Unit entered failed state. Sep 17 20:27:25 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Sep 17 20:28:54 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-ssd_aux_250.device: J> Sep 17 20:28:54 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2dpa> -- Subject: Unit dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-ssd_aux_250.device has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-ssd_aux_250.device has failed. -- -- The result is timeout. Sep 17 20:28:54 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Cryptography Setup for c> -- Subject: Unit systemd-cryptsetup@cr_ssd250.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit systemd-cryptsetup@cr_ssd250.service has failed. -- -- The result is dependency. Sep 17 20:28:54 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: systemd-cryptsetup@cr_ssd250.service: Job syst> Sep 17 20:28:54 Legolas.valinor systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-ssd_aux_250.device: J> ~ ~ (the messages about ssd250 are unrelated, please ignore) What I'm doing is following the instructions at http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin to enable the thunar-shares plugin. If I remove the additions to the configuration file it starts: #http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-shares-plugin # security = share # usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershares # usershare max shares = 100 # usershare allow guests = yes # usershare owner only = yes But I do need them, per the instructions. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))