Do I need Samba? (Solved!)

[cstrike77]

Running LXDE 2010 on very ancient lappy, only 10 gig drive. I've blown off nvidia drivers and some printer drivers along with other things I don't use. I'm not using file or printer sharing, can I get rid of Samba?

Tks all

[Texstar]

Running LXDE 2010 on very ancient lappy, only 10 gig drive. I've blown off nvidia drivers and some printer drivers along with other things I don't use. I'm not using file or printer sharing, can I get rid of Samba?

Tks all

You sure can. There are a couple of library files out of the samba pacakges you will need to leave as there are some packages dependent on them. ie libsmbclient0

[wayne1932]

Don't you wanta dance?      

Seriously, if you don't need to connect to other computers on a LAN, you can blow it away.  

[cstrike77]

Don't you wanta dance?      

Seriously, if you don't need to connect to other computers on a LAN, you can blow it away.  

I do use the wi-fi at the library, but other networks like home don't have or at least right now I don't. This is the only 'puter I have and just trying to reclaim some disk space, I'm down to like 1.5 gig on SDA1..

[wayne1932]

You don't need samba to connect to wifi.   samba is for setting up a network at home/work/etc.  So you don't need it there.  When there, go to PCC (control center) >Network Center> and find the wifi signal and do whatever (encryption key if needed) to connect.   But I suspect you already know that.