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  • Do you just need to be able to mount Windows shares on the machine? What OS or distro are you using? Commented May 20, 2020 at 20:02
  • Centos 6.10. Cannot upgrade, intranet legacy server. Commented May 20, 2020 at 20:03
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    Answer the question on what you are trying to do. Do you just need to connect to Windows shares? Is it printers that you want to communicate with? Are you trying to remotely connect to a Windows machine? If you are so convinced that you need samba-client, then just yum install samba-client. There is nothing that you can do to prevent the system from installing the dependencies. The package needs them and that's why they are called dependencies. Commented May 20, 2020 at 20:39
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    I didn't downvote your question. It was downvoted long before I read it probably because it's not clear what you are trying to do or what the problem is. I asked you what you are trying to do that makes you think that you need samba-client. If your problem is that it's installing dependencies, then that's not a problem and means that the package manager is functioning exactly as it should. If you aren't going to answer a simple question on what you are trying to do, then how do you expect to get the help that you need? Commented May 20, 2020 at 20:55
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    The daemon for samba which is known as smb.service is provided by the samba package which is not one of the dependencies that yum is trying to install. Commented May 20, 2020 at 21:07