Starting SMB/CIFS File and Active Directory Server. [FAIL]

[joejvj]

I recently upgraded my ubuntu server from 12.04 to 14.04 LTS and get the following error message during startup:

Starting SMB/CIFS File and Active Directory Server. [FAIL]

Note: Samba works 100% and I have no issues. I would however like to clean this up.

Anyone know what could be causing this and how to fix it?

[101010CBEnt]

I, too, have this exact same issue, and would just like to correct the offending code.

[Glenn_Thomas_Hvids]

I recently installed 14.04 and encountered the same issue.
Seeing as I didn't want to use my server as an Active Directory server I set out to find out what was trying to start this service and how to disable it.

I learned that Ubuntu now also use a service initializer called "Upstart", which starts the services listed in /etc/init

So I just deleted the startup script called samba-ad-dc.conf

After a restart I no longer got the "Starting SMB/CIFS File and Active Directory Server. [FAIL]" message, and Samba still works for shares.

[alexandr-o]

source:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/455418/samba-started-twice-on-boot-up-after-upgrade-to-14-04

In a root shell do:
echo manual > /etc/init/samba-ad-dc.override

[Scott_Combrink]

I recently installed 14.04 and encountered the same issue.
Seeing as I didn't want to use my server as an Active Directory server I set out to find out what was trying to start this service and how to disable it.

I learned that Ubuntu now also use a service initializer called "Upstart", which starts the services listed in /etc/init

So I just deleted the startup script called samba-ad-dc.conf

After a restart I no longer got the "Starting SMB/CIFS File and Active Directory Server. [FAIL]" message, and Samba still works for shares.

I am new to ubuntu how did you delete and please feel free to explain as if I know nothing

[uduvgp]

I am new to ubuntu how did you delete and please feel free to explain as if I know nothing

sudo rm /etc/init/samba-ad-dc.conf

But better

echo manual |sudo tee /etc/init/samba-ad-dc.override