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How do I completely rip-out smb / samba from my Ubuntu 11.10 machine?

How do I, afterwards, reinstall it cleanly?

UPDATE: My goal is to rip out any functionality related to Windows SMB from my desktop and do a clean re-install of these components. See this question for some background.

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So, for the server, from the Terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --purge samba
sudo apt-get install samba

But, if you are having client problems, it would be more like:

sudo apt-get remove --purge smbclient libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient libsmbclient
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After I have completed both "server" and "client" components, how come Nautilus still shows "Browse Network" and "Windows Network" then? – jldupont Nov 2 '11 at 16:47
Is there a relationship with Gnome/GVFS somewhere along the lines? How do I get rid / re-install that too? – jldupont Nov 2 '11 at 16:47
Even after your proposed steps, I still can do "mount -t cifs". How do I completely get rid of smb stuff and do a clean install? – jldupont Nov 2 '11 at 16:49
apt-get purge samba does the same. – Oxwivi Nov 2 '11 at 16:56
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The reason that you can still mount a cifs filesystem even after removing samba is that the cifs kernel module is not a part of any samba package. It is included in the kernel. That module has client support only for accessing cifs shares on a network. One does not need samba to access shares. But to create them samba needs to be installed. – Zoke Nov 2 '11 at 18:52
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