Default SMB.CONF?, Ubuntuguide Confusion?

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:48 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 1. Purged and reinstalled Samba but my smb.conf is
> exactly the same as before the purge. What do I do to
> get the original default smb.conf back into
> /etc/samba.

Did you use Synaptic's "remove completely" option? That should remove
config files as well.

> They are the same aren't they????  Why all the geek
> kyrpto crap. If an example was given in these cases it
> wouldn't be so bad. Other places in the guide had
> examples.  Why don't it just say add 'username" and
> stop confusing the newbies...

Take a deep breath, Leonard. It will all work eventually :-)

It's actually quite unusual for anyone to have the level of difficulty
you have been having - for most people samba in Ubuntu "just works". I
hope we figure out what got in your way...

Regards, K.

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