How To Install samba on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba on CentOS 7.
What is samba
Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
We can use yum or dnf to install samba on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba.
Install samba on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install samba using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install samba
Install samba on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install samba using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install samba
How To Uninstall samba on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the samba package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove samba
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
