[Samba] clients not connecting to samba shares

Gary Dale gary at extremeground.com
Wed Mar 29 03:21:17 UTC 2023


On 2023-03-28 16:32, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
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> On 28/03/2023 21:22, Gary Dale via samba wrote:
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>> Still getting an error when trying to install samba - it starts when 
>> configuring samba-common-bin. As you can see, it seems to want 
>> smb.conf but that doesn't exist until I run samba-tool... Even after 
>> removing the files you suggested, I'm still getting samba-tool 
>> picking up the provisioning defaults from my previous values.
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> Are you installing the Samba packages with dpkg, or with apt-get ?
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> Rowland
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Everyone uses apt (not apt-get) these days.

I'm thinking I probably need to do more purging instead of autoremove - 
for the packages that apt purge doesn't remove. By purging the 
individual helper packages, that should remove more configuration files.




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