On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Arnab Roy <arniekol at gmail.com> wrote: > > PIDFile=/var/run/samba/ > Do you have "/var/run/samba" dir? I use: PIDFile=/usr/local/samba/var/run/winbindd.pid And even then I think I had to manually create the "/usr/local/samba/var/run" dir.