Samba trouble

[Dale Farnsworth]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:42:42PM +0000, Alex Dean wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with Samba.  As I just installed  
> it, and I don't have any important configuration set up yet, I would  
> like to know how to totally remove it, and just start over.  If I  
> still have problems at that point, I'll dig into it a little deeper.
> 
> I'm on Debian, and when I do 'apt-get remove samba; apt-get clean;',  
> there are still lots of Samba-related files left.  'updatedb; locate  
> samba;' finds lots of stuff.  Can I just manually delete all these,  
> then 'apt-get install samba' to get back to the beginning?

'apt-get remove' leaves config files, as you found.  If you want
to remove config files as well, do 'apt-get --purge remove'.  Of
course, that no longer works after you have done 'apt-get remove'.

So to clear everything out, you can do:
	apt-get install samba
	apt-get --purge remove samba

It is also safe to just manually delete the files.

-Dale