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Re: [LUG] Samba

 
You may find on some distributions that some samba packages are linked in with other packages and removing them may break things (it should tell you if they're dependencies). You may find the package installed is Samba-Common which if I remember correctly contains shared samba libraries.

It should tell you in your favourite package manager what samba packages are installed.

Rob

On 25 May 2017 5:23 p.m., "Neil" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25/05/17 13:49, Joseph Bennie wrote:
Samba is the unix implementation of the SMB and CIFS file share protocol.

â its not exclusive to windows. But they did invent it. And it it the most common technology for its use case.

Most operating systems can talk SMB(v1 - v3) and CIFS .

Personally I prefer other more secure file sharing technologies so I disable this even on windows hosts to harden them.



Do you mean that it is safe to remove it? I don't do any file sharing.

Neil

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