Remove Samba?
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Remove Samba?
Can I safely remove Samba? I do not share files with Microsoft Windows computers.
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Kadaitcha Man
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Re: Remove Samba?
Sure you can, but it might come in useful when you want to share with another local Linux machine, unless you plan to use nfs.
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Re: Remove Samba?
Okay thanks. I thought there may be dependencies on Samba that will cause problems if I remove it.Kadaitcha Man wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 6:21 amSure you can, but it might come in useful when you want to share with another local Linux machine, unless you plan to use nfs.
I do not plan any file sharing. How do I remove Samba?
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Kadaitcha Man
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Re: Remove Samba?
sudo apt remove --purge sambaComing to a thread near you: Lots of bragging about my AMD 5950X. Currently delayed due to high demand.
It's pronounced kad-eye-cha, not kada-itcha.
It's pronounced kad-eye-cha, not kada-itcha.
Re: Remove Samba?
"samba" the package - as in the samba server package? Or all things samba?
If you remove all things samba you will remove gvfs-backends since libsmbclient is a dependency. That in turn will disable certain file manager capabilities: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/backends
If you remove all things samba you will remove gvfs-backends since libsmbclient is a dependency. That in turn will disable certain file manager capabilities: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/backends
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Kadaitcha Man
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Re: Remove Samba?
I did a dry run on the remove and didn't get any dependencies reported back for the command I posted. Have I advised the poster incorrectly?altair4 wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 7:09 am"samba" the package - as in the samba server package? Or all things samba?
If you remove all things samba you will remove gvfs-backends since libsmbclient is a dependency. That in turn will disable certain file manager capabilities: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/backends
Coming to a thread near you: Lots of bragging about my AMD 5950X. Currently delayed due to high demand.
It's pronounced kad-eye-cha, not kada-itcha.
It's pronounced kad-eye-cha, not kada-itcha.
Re: Remove Samba?
That is why I asked if we were talking about "samba" the package or "all things samba".
If you remove libsmbclient you will remove gvfs-backends:
If you remove libsmbclient you will remove gvfs-backends:
tester@vmint193cinn:~$ sudo apt remove libsmbclient
[sudo] password for tester:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
celluloid gvfs-backends libmpv1 libsmbclient smbclient
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Re: Remove Samba?
I thought Samba was only a optional component for sharing files the Microsoft Windows way. Now I am learning it is more integrate into Linux Mint.
libsmbclient and libwbclient0 have many. I think I should not remove them. However I think I can remove nemo-share python-samba samba-common-bin and smbclient.
I am also thinking to remove samba-common casper lupin-casper and cifs-utils but perhaps that would cause problems? Your advice is appreciated.
My ideal is to remove all things samba however I now understand that some package have dependants that I do not want to remove. I think removing gvfs-backends would not be good. To learn dependencies of packages I used apt remove as you show.
libsmbclient and libwbclient0 have many. I think I should not remove them. However I think I can remove nemo-share python-samba samba-common-bin and smbclient.
I am also thinking to remove samba-common casper lupin-casper and cifs-utils but perhaps that would cause problems? Your advice is appreciated.
Re: Remove Samba?
I removed smbclient and nemo-share