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What is the different when install samba using 

sudo apt-get install samba

and using this command

sudo apt-get install samba samba-vfs-modules winbind bind9 bind9utils ldb-tools ntp smbldap-tools libnss-winbind libpam-winbind
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The first command will install the package samba and all its dependencies.

The second command will install samba and bunch of other packages and also their dependencies.

The second command is useful when you are extending the functionality of samba and need extra packages to be present to do so.

Note that, most of these packages comes as recommended or suggested while installing samba:

$ apt-cache depends samba | grep -E 'Recommends|Suggests'
  Suggests: bind9
  Suggests: bind9utils
  Suggests: ldb-tools
  Suggests: ntp
  Suggests: smbldap-tools
  Suggests: winbind
  Suggests: ufw
  Recommends: attr
  Recommends: logrotate
  Recommends: samba-dsdb-modules
  Recommends: samba-vfs-modules

As the recommended packages are install by default, you can tell apt-get to install suggested packages:

sudo apt-get install --install-suggests samba

this will save you from typing long command line. Then you just need to install any packages explicitly from that list of yours, if missing.

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  • thanks yous so much , u made me understand now. is this packages usefull to instal nas as that what iam trying to do ?
    – Egytich
    Jun 22, 2016 at 1:58
  • @Egytich Your way is fine as long as you are comfortable with it..
    – heemayl
    Jun 22, 2016 at 1:59

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