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On Centos 6.10, if I try

yum install samba-client

I get also these dependencies

samba-common samba-winbind samba-winbind-clients

If I try cifs-utils, I also get a dependency on samba-winbind.

The Linux host has to use network shares provided by Windows servers, so it doesn't need the daemon provided by samba-winbind.

How can I install the minimal requirements to run smbclient?

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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

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In Debian, smbclient is in its own package (along with other command-line utilities), so no need for the winbind dependency. In CentOS 6, it's lumped in with all the Samba client-side tools, some of which do require samba-winbind. Therefore, you cannot install samba-client without pulling in the dependency on samba-winbind.

My recommendation, therefore, would be to accept this unwanted dependency. The winbind daemon is stopped and disabled by default so there's nothing that needs to be done after installing it.

In CentOS 7 and CentOS 8, samba-winbind and samba-winbind-clients aren't dependencies for samba-client and it can be installed without them but you are using CentOS 6.

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  • Hi Roaima. Thanks for your attention. See my update on smbclient : it depends only on libwbclient.so What about download the RPMs and extract only the library, using yum tools? Commented May 22, 2020 at 14:07
  • @Massimo I don't run CentOS so I don't know what the effect of this would be. As I say, my recommendation would be simply to accept the dependencies and move on. Commented May 22, 2020 at 16:41
  • There isn't one size fits all. Your solution isn't good for us: samba-winbind creates a new system daemon. Commented May 22, 2020 at 16:55
  • One that's not active Commented May 22, 2020 at 16:59
  • Yes I knew. We have policies about installed daemons. Pls don't push too hard for your answer :-) Commented May 22, 2020 at 17:03
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Sometimes thanks to the dialogue with other users, comparing two unsatisfactory solutions, the correct solution is found.

I discover after blocking the installation of samba-client

/etc/yum.conf

exclude=samba-*

if you issue

yum install samba-client

yum will find the alternative package samba4-client, not depending on the samba daemon.

Bingo!

This is the right solution for Centos 6.10:

yum install samba4-client

The package samba-client installs version 3.6, requiring the daemon bloatware.

The package samba4-client installs version 4.2, client only. Availabe on the official centos repository.

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  • A dependency isn't bloatware. It has files that are needed by another package. That's why it's called a dependency. Commented May 22, 2020 at 20:14
  • Bloatware. Indeeed in samba4-client they fixed it and remove the dependency. Commented May 24, 2020 at 15:13

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