Samba running two sessions?

[AnOrange]

Hello all. I'm a long time Mint user, never had problems that I couldn't resolve (thanks to this forum!) and I've just upgraded my PC to 19. I have a number of computers on my home network and successfully use Samba for file sharing (including with an old Buffulo NAS box) Samba has never been a problem for me (touch wood!) and I'm now quite a dab hand at sorting out issues (tbh, I find Samba pretty straight forward as long as you keep it simple) However, this little problem is baffling me....

My new Tara PC appears twice on a network browse - both with "(File Sharing)" appended to the host name (I've not seen that before) It appears this way on all networked PCs. File sharing works as it should, no issues there, it's just this weird appearing twice thing - it's as if two samba sessions are running. If I do 'sudo service smbd stop', both 'host name + "(File Sharing)" entries go to be replaced by simply the host name. Obviously, the host is then no longer browseable . 'sudo service smbd start' sees both entries reappear and the host is again browseable.

sudo service smbd status shows...

● smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor preset: ena
Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-09-20 15:09:58 CEST; 2s ago
Docs: man:smbd(8)
man:samba(7)
man:smb.conf(5)
Main PID: 4620 (smbd)
Status: "smbd: ready to serve connections..."
Tasks: 4 (limit: 4621)
CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
├─4620 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
├─4622 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
├─4623 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
└─4624 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group

Sep 20 15:09:58 Gerard systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Sep 20 15:09:58 Gerard systemd[1]: Started Samba SMB Daemon.

Can someone point me in the direction of resolving this intrigue? Thanks

Edit: attached screen shot shows what I mean (Gerard is the new Tara PC)

[AnOrange]

Sorted it, using Webmin, as it makes it easier to configure smb.conf

I changed the 'default service' in the [global] settings

Thanks for all your help

[BG405]

Thanks for taking the time to post your solution, and I apologize myself and on behalf of the members on here for not spotting your original post. Unfortunately, I've seen that it happens all too often .. I, for one, check the "New Posts" on average once daily; i suspect many others do also, but posts inevitably still get overlooked, or simply not seen by someone who feels they can help.

[AnOrange]

Late update.... I reverted back to 18 in the end.

After rebooting (on 19), I had the 2 'File Sharing' services back again. Service restart (sudo service smbd restart) didn't resolve but restarting via Webmin did. I could not find a reason nor cause for the 2 services... so I gave up and it bugged me so that I went back to 18.

[altair4]

You will likely have to remain with Mint18 for quite some time.

Ubuntu finally enabled mDNS in samba with Ubuntu 18.04 so when everything is working correctly your Mint19 machines will appear twice:

** Once using the deprecated netbios mechanism which resolves to smb://gerard

** And agin using mDNS which resolves to smb://gerard.local

It's not a bug it's a feature.

Two different options in smb.conf control how these run: multicast dns register and disable netbios
I wouldn't recommend messing with either but that's me.

For the typical Mint user this probably isn't an issue since netbios "discovery" is broken in Mint unless the user adds client max protocol = NT1 to his smb.conf