On Sunday, 6 October 2019 16:00:56 BST Terry Coles wrote: > terry@OptiPlex:~$ systemd-analyze critical-chain
Doh! I'm easy to fool; I can even fool myself! It wasn't as easy as I thought. First, I only purged the package samba and I should have included samba-common. This meant that the /etc/samba directory wasn't removed. I then completed the con by looking at the results of systemd-analyze critical-chain for this machine and not the laptop...... So when I purged the right packages, the server was operating, but not serving anything. After I copied my old smb.conf file into /etc/samba, I get to see the contents again and it doesn't seem to be affecting the boot time significantly. I still have to add myself as a samba user on the laptop, but it should work then I expect. So progress on 'it just works' hasn't been that good, but it hasn't been too bad since I kept my config file. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-10-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk