Samba with LinuxCNC

Hi folks,

I'm trying to get Samba running on my LinuxCNC machine. It is version 2.7.15, uname -a gives the following output:

When I try to install Samba withI get a message stating that there is no installation candidate. The packages "samba-common-bin", "smbclient" and "samba-common" are suggested as replacements. When I'm trying to install these, apt tells me they're already installed on the system. But, actually, there is no Samba demon/service running.

Running /etc/init.d/samba restart ends with
Some binaries are present, such as smbpasswd, testparm, but other essentials are completely missing (smbstatus for example)

It seems I've got some kind of zombie install, with some bits missing.

I tried to reinstall the packages samba-common and samba-common-bin by using apt-get install --reinstall --force-yes but it just quits...

Do you have a hint on how to proceed from here?

Regards,

Jan

Hi Tommy,

Thank you for your answer, but it did not work. I added the package sources and ran apt-get update afterwards, but installing samba is failing in the same way.

Regards

Jan

You might be able to download ISOs of the whole Wheezy distro from an archive, and save the contents to a hard drive directory and install the debs directly from there.
cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0/i386/iso-dvd/

You would essentially be creating your own mirror, and you might be able to set the repositories to point to your new local mirror and install software using apt or synaptic.

I have not tried this myself. (perhaps I should) Most of my Linuxcnc machines are still running Wheezy. But I have not needed to install any software on any of them since the Wheezy archives disappeared.

I just spun up a linuxcnc-2.7.14-wheezy.iso vm and found a way to install samba

Change the date back to before the security certificate expired.
sudo date +%Y%m%d -s "20180101"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install samba

Worked here.

serverfault.com/questions/960970/wheezy-...eturns-404-not-found