When you "completely removed" samba, did that include marking the samba-common package for complete removal?
Several key files in /etc/samba are owned by the samba-common binary package, not by the samba binary package; so removing these files without also purging samba-common will not have the desired result.
When you "completely removed" samba, did that include marking the samba-common package for complete removal?
Several key files in /etc/samba are owned by the samba-common binary package, not by the samba binary package; so removing these files without also purging samba-common will not have the desired result.