In menu -> setup -> network -> utilities -> samba

After the (couch) update to 5.3.18 I found that samba was stopped and autostart was disabled.

I can manually start and stop samba and when running I can see the box/HDD over the network on my Windows 10 laptop which indicates taht samba is actually working.

What I cannot do is to get samba to autostart - it remains in the disabled state. Pressing Yellow to enable autostart has no effect on the setting. A (spinning) VIX symbol is seen for a small fraction of a second.

The box has been re-booted and also has had a cold boot by removing the mains power for a couple of minutes with no change to autostarting samba. After the re-boot samba is again stopped but can be manually started.