Remove Samba – How to Completely Remove Samba on Ubuntu 11.10

11.10samba

How do I completely rip-out smb / samba from my Ubuntu 11.10 machine?

How do I, afterwards, reinstall it cleanly?

UPDATE: My goal is to rip out any functionality related to Windows SMB from my desktop and do a clean re-install of these components. See this question for some background.

Best Answer

So, for the server, from the Terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --purge samba
sudo apt-get install samba

But, if you are having client problems, it would be more like:

sudo apt-get remove --purge smbclient libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient libsmbclient

Update:

Note that this answer only applies to Ubuntu 11.10! More recent Ubuntus will probably remove useful software with the apt remove command, so be sure to check what is being removed and if needed "cherrypick" packages in synaptic or similar.

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I just want to get into a public record that nowadays you need to add these configurations into the [Global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf to make Windows XP able to connect to your Samba 4.5 server:

server max protocol = NT1
lanman auth = yes
ntlm auth = yes

Of course that compromises the security on some level I am deliberately unaware of.

Ubuntu – Samba not working

This is the simplest samba configuration that I know of. Save your old smb.conf and make a new one that looks exactly like this test whether machines can now access

[global]
        map to guest = Bad User

        log file = /var/log/samba/%m
        log level = 1
workgroup = your workgroupname
       netbios name = name of your server
       server string = Samba Server %v
        max log size = 50
       socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
       preferred master = No
       local master = No
       dns proxy = No
       security = user

[name of your share]
        path = /mnt/name of your folder where the shared drive is mounted
browseable = yes        
read only = no
        valid users = some username, some other username 
    create mask = 0755
    directory mask = 0755

With that you should be able to get a user to logon the network and access a shared folder

make sure your drives and shared folders are mounted in /mnt/ not your home folder

Let me know if you can access like that

Edited in after

What I would be doing now, if I was you is to check permissions on mount points, checking that the clients, users, and server all have sufficient permissions, and that there are no mistakes in the config files I would also ensure that the network settings had the proper gateway and DNS settings etc. All I can really suggest is that you look over the configuration files as though you were setting up the network afresh. Experience tells me that this problem is something to do with permissions though. Either incorrect ownership or incorrect groups on the shared directories at least that's what my instinct says. If that proved to be incorrect I would move onto the config files, however I cannot see, after a quick perusal of your config files what might be wrong in them