Confirming this based on feedback from Mart_ijn It would seem to me that this is most likely not samba specific, but a problem where the update-manager didn't have access to the X display and somehow the frontend was set to console.
Confirming this based on feedback from Mart_ijn
It would seem to me that this is most likely not samba specific, but a problem where the update-manager didn't have access to the X display and somehow the frontend was set to console.