[Solved] Is samba installed by default?

[Member dirkd]

I was a little confused for some time, while trying to share my printer over the network. It seemed my edits of smb.conf had no effect whatsoever. Then I checked in Synaptic and found out that samba wasn’t even installed on my system (Antix 17.2). After installing, everything worked out well after a while. Two questions however.

1. Why is smb.conf present if samba itself is not installed?
2. What’s the purpose of these numerous copies of smb.conf? I found one in ~/.smb.conf, another one in /etc/samba/smb.conf and a third one in /usr/share/samba/smb.conf.

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[Anonymous]

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Because one needs it to be able to connect to shares, which works without a server installed (but which you need if you want to share printer).

One is ‚personal‘, in /etc is ‚global‘ and in /usr/share is sample configuration.

[Member dirkd]

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Thanks for the enlightenment. But just to be sure that I understand you well: are you saying that the information in smb.conf is actually used to connect to shares on other computers? I never suspected this. I always thought the sole purpose of smb.conf was to make resources on the local computer available to other systems on the network.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Full samba is not installed, but samba-common is (which provides the /usr/share/samba/smb.conf file)

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[Member dirkd]

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OK, that makes sense. And of course smbclient is needed by connectshares I guess. I think I see the whole picture now.

Thanks.

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