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i have printer off ubuntu 9.04 box sharing other windows boxes in house via samba. however, deleted 1 entry in samba configuration gui sharing printer, , not figure out how back. after hunting few hours, gave up, uninstalled samba, attempted re-install (when had first installed it, set printer no problem.)

unfortunately, when try reinstall, error. i've dipped command line, read man pages on apt, apt-get, ran "sudo apt-get purge samba", still if 'find / -name "*smb*"' still see lot of samba looking stuff. tried various varieties of (after trying synaptic , rebooting), after few hours have given up.

error is: (there no smbd running when try this)

reading package lists... done
building dependency tree
reading state information... done
suggested packages:
openbsd-inetd inet-superserver smbldap-tools ldb-tools
following new packages installed:
samba
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 remove , 0 not upgraded.
need 0b/5071kb of archives.
after operation, 13.7mb of additional disk space used.
preconfiguring packages ...
selecting deselected package samba.
(reading database ... 109386 files , directories installed.)
unpacking samba (from .../samba_2%3a3.3.2-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb) ...
processing triggers man-db ...
processing triggers ufw ...
setting samba (2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.2) ...
generating /etc/default/samba...
* starting samba daemons [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript samba, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
errors encountered while processing:
samba
e: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (1)

i'd appreciate ideas here... thanks.



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