I tried installing samba from Ubuntu Software Centre and from command line after installing .
When I tried opening it is now showing in the application launcher or now working through command line.
Any help
I had the same problem. Here is the solution that worked for me.
NOTE: If you have tried the installation and it doesn't uninstall Samba, Samba-common, system-config-samba first. to do it just replace "install" with "remove" in steps 3 & 4
Open Terminal
Install gksu:
sudo apt-get install gksu
In the terminal, run
gksu-properties
In the dialogue that follows set authentication mode to "sudo" and grab mode to "enable".
Install Samba:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
Install Samba Config:
sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba cifs-utils
The Samba icon showed up on the launch bar and everything worked fine.
I take no credit for this solution this answer is form "user168736" answer here
