Quote Originally Posted by ccs View Post
All I've done is check samba (for the umpteenth time), using the gui, from a fresh flash, and report the findings, I'm 100% sure what I've posted is correct.
The end result is. A flash and restore will result in you putting an old smb.conf in place if there is a newer one.
What I was saying was that installing samba can touch /etc/samba, as it pulls in samba-common. Except that this is part of teh base image, so opkg knows it is already installed so doesn't bother to do it again.

I've never heard of samba-common, I doubt anybody else has either, and from where I'm sitting it's not relevant.
Well, it is the package that would contain a new smb,conf file, so it is relevant.