How to fix Failed to restart samba.service: Unit samba.service not found on Debian & Ubuntu

Problem:

When trying to restart the Samba service on Ubuntu or Debian using

example.sh

sudo systemctl restart samba

sudo systemctl restart samba

you see this error message:

example.txt

Failed to restart samba.service: Unit samba.service not found.

Failed to restart samba.service: Unit samba.service not found.

The samba service is called smbd, not samba. Restart it using

example.sh

sudo systemctl restart smbd

sudo systemctl restart smbd

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