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. However! I cannot connect to the share for whatever reason. I can see the samba share in my network but adding it only throws a general error. smbclient gives me no access to the samba share whatsoever, not even in localhost. Something is seriously wrong here. (Giving up for today after 2 hours of debugging)