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On 01/12/2021 12:04, Neil wrote: > On my new laptop today I suddenly had some updates for samba. I remember now that, > as part of the installation routine for MX, samba is automatically installed. I > should have unticked the box, but obviously I missed it. > > I will never have any use for samba. Will it be safe to remove it, or might that > cause some problems? > > Thanks, > > Neil > As far as I'm aware, you do nothing whatsoever involving Windoze, and therefore have no use for the Samba daemons. If you don't have a NAS, or cannot use NFS, I'm pretty sure you're safe to uninstall. Whilst I have used Samba in the past, I'm pretty sure nothing I'm presently running has Samba installed here ... (famous last words..) Cheers, Michael / veremitz.
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