New comment by Anachron on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27626#issuecomment-753654183 Comment: Well the problem is that `sv` thinks the service is down because it detaches from the parent process. (See the 1 as parent PID) So it turns out running the service file `once` actually spawns `smbd` and I can try to connect to the server.