From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:49:05 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:16:27 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> Dec 14 22:02:17 Telcontar systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result   
   'exit-code'.   
   >   
   > OK, I tried introducing a config error into my own Samba setup, and   
   > got similar results to you: I was expecting smb{,d}.service to log   
   > errors parsing the configuration, but it does not.   
   >   
   > And I can’t see any obvious setting in smb.conf to tell it to do so.   
   >   
   > Just to be clear, this is a Samba shortcoming.   
      
   I figured it out: Samba does log these errors, and you’ll find them in   
   /var/log/samba/log.smbd.   
      
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