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When doing apt-get install samba smbfs I get the following error. How do I go about troubleshooting and fixing this?
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The entire output from apt-get is pasted below.
The following NEW packages will be installed
samba smbfs
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 1350kB/5645kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main smbfs 2:3.2.5-4lenny6 [1350kB]
Fetched 1350kB in 2s (479kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package samba.
(Reading database ... 108352 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking samba (from .../samba_2%3a3.2.5-4lenny6_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package smbfs.
Unpacking smbfs (from .../smbfs_2%3a3.2.5-4lenny6_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up samba (2:3.2.5-4lenny6) ...
Generating /etc/default/samba...
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up smbfs (2:3.2.5-4lenny6) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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