Adam
September 25, 2015, 1:38pm
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I installed VPN and left samba unchecked:
Then if I click “edit” on the VPN package, samba is present:
I unchecked samba and clicked apply settings, and then although VPN is installed and showing up…
…it does not appear in the software center as being installed:
Similar issues may be happening with other packages, but this is the only one that I’ve experienced this with so far. It appears that I need samba to be installed for ipsec, so I’ll be reinstalling it. But I thought this behavior was odd and thought I’d share.
giacomo
September 25, 2015, 2:29pm
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See Strange behavior between software center and YUM
By the ways, without samba l2tp authentication will not work.
Adam
September 25, 2015, 3:01pm
3
Why even have the option to uncheck the samba package then?
It’s not very confidence inspiring to tell a server not to install something then it installs anyway. I’d prefer that check-box just didn’t exist.
mabeleira
September 25, 2015, 5:42pm
4
Adam which version are you installing?
Adam
September 25, 2015, 5:50pm
5
This was on 6.6 with standard repo.
davidep
September 27, 2015, 8:00am
6
L2TP/PPP requires only a samba client to perform authentication against a PDC server. Today only the localhost is allowed as PDC.
We can move towards two directions:
Insert L2TP support in a separate package, to avoid installing Samba servers where is not necessary;
wait for further development that will allow connecting a remote LDAP/PDC for authentication.
What do you think?
BTW we can fix the module/yum group composition immediately! Edit: see
