Thanks for getting back to us.
I suspect at some point you thought that the right service to start was
samba-ad-dc, and you configured it like that, and forgot it. I also find
this confusing and hope someday we can have the "switch" between
services be automatic, depending on whether you want an
The samba-ad-dc service is meant for samba when it is configured as an
Active Directory Controller. Since your role is "standalone server", the
services you should try to start/stop/restart/etc are called smbd and
nmbd, as they were before.
You should check why, if still happening, these are
