Job for smb.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

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The service had an error during startup. Focus on the red text. Run samba testparm, validate your smb.conf file. Try copying your smb.conf file to a backup file and use a minimum configuration.

# systemctl status smb.service 
● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2016-07-09 10:40:09 EDT; 42s ago
  %(#FF0000)[Process: 9272 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS ](code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 9272 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 09 10:40:09  Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Jul 09 10:40:09  smb.service: main process exited, code=exited, status...URE
Jul 09 10:40:09  Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
Jul 09 10:40:09  Unit smb.service entered failed state.
Jul 09 10:40:09  smb.service failed.
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