SAMBA config missing

[xioSlayer]

Ok I installed samba with

sudo apt-get install samba

I then played with the settings for about an hour trying to make security enabled shares work.

After no luck with that I decided I would go back to non-secured sharing, which isn't what I want but at least it worked.

So I then used

sudo apt-get purge samba

and I deleted my /etc/samba directory to remove the configuration files.

When I went to reinstall samba I noticed it would not recreate the samba directory.

What do I do now? Is there a special command to make 'install' rebuild the config directory?

Thanks.

[Morbius1]

smb.conf doesn't come from the "samba" package it comes from the "samba-common" package.

[collisionystm]

Read this

https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/server...etworking.html

You have to add a samba user to use them in security enabled shares.

Must be an existing user.

Open terminal

sudo smbpasswd -a username

[xioSlayer]

thank you, that solved it.