Comment 8 for bug 219396

I was wrong in the previous post, the SMB daemon is not running, in fact it is not even installed. Why is it blocking on some CIFS call?

The following related packages are installed:

jos@duet ~ $ dpkg-query -l smb*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii smbclient 3.0.28a-1ubunt a LanManager-like simple client for Unix
ii smbfs 3.0.28a-1ubunt mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for
un smbfsx <none> (no description available)
un smbget <none> (no description available)

jos@duet ~ $ dpkg-query -l samba*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
in samba <none> (no description available)
un samba-client <none> (no description available)
ii samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubunt Samba common files used by both the server a