Samba not wanted

[philotux]

I ran

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sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/smbd 

before. I hope I didn't mess up my system.

[fehlix]

I ran

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sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/smbd 

before. I hope I didn't mess up my system.

That hack might work. Suggest to cleanly remove the service start/stop links anyway.
Any package-update of smbd might revert your hack anytime
Any you would have it running again

[philotux]

I ran

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sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/smbd 

before. I hope I didn't mess up my system.

That hack might work. Suggest to cleanly remove the service start/stop links anyway.
Any package-update of smbd might revert your hack anytime
Any you would have it running again

Thanks so much fehlix for the feedback!
I will run the commands given in your previous post to make sure that the service is disabled once and for all.

cheers

[fehlix]

I will run the commands given in your previous post to make sure that the service is disabled once and for all.

Just happened today, a new samba update was pushed from upstream. And guess what, all our nicely removed start/stop-links have been setup again through this update and samba was triggered to start after the update
So looks like, after those samba updates like today, the removal steps need to be repeated.
But as mentioned above, the setup will be changed soon, so that the samba-package can be completely removed ( for those who don’t need, use or want it).
Stay tuned.

[colin_b]

I have dug around and I can't find a simple explanation of what Samba does. I am using MX on a home PC with no printer, is it relevant to my computer?

[barnaby]

All this seems quite complicated. Wouldn't it be easier to simply remove samba altogether using synaptic? Then samba would simply never start at all. As I unchecked the samba box during installation I did expect samba to simply not be there at all. Or am I missing something here? As I said above, I have never used samba. Thanks.

[philotux]

Stay tuned.

I will. Thanks for the info!
By the way, I am not sure to have received any updates to samba . I have glanced through /var/log/apt and can't find any. My installed version is 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4.
At the moment all I get running

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sudo service status smbd

is

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status: unrecognized service

[dolphin_oracle]

sudo service smbd status

[philotux]

sudo service smbd status

Thanks for the correction dolphin_oracle.

Here it is:

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$ sudo service smbd status
[ ok ] smbd is running.

I ran

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sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/smbd 

again and after reboot:

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$ sudo service smbd status
smbd: unrecognized service

[clicktician]

sudo service smbd status

I ran

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sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/smbd 

Should we do this same thing to Samba's NetBIOS name service "nmbd", or is that needed by something else?