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Thanks again, but no success.
There is a connected NIC, I can webconfig and FTP to the sytem. Indeed, there seems to be no way back once Samba Directory has been installed (and removed). So the only way is re-installing ClearOS which I already intended doing. I think it would be very helpful if the Samba initilizing process would give a clue as to why it's not processing, instead of sitting idle forever. -