[Samba]smb.conf and Environment Variables

[Dwight Tovey]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 13:19, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Please be more specific. What variables are your trying to read and how to
> do plan on using them?
> 

I don't know Sanjiv's situation, but I could also use something like
that.  What I have is an Oracle database running on a Unix box.  For
some of the applications, users need to copy files from their PC to the
Unix box where Oracle can get at them, then run an Oracle script to
process those text files.  Users drop these files into $AP_TOP (an
environment variable set by a global setup file) and the scripts use the
same environment variable to find them.  Currently users use FTP to get
the files from their machines to the Unix box, then move them to
$AP_TOP.  I would like to use Samba to make it easier for them.

I could just define the share based on the current value of $AP_TOP, but
occasionally during the course of installing updates or reallocating
filesystems, the Oracle DBA will move the location $AP_TOP.  Currently
he just changes the value of the environment variable setting in the
global file and both users and the Oracle scripts are happy.  If we go
to Samba, then we will have to remember to also change the share
definition as well.  I feel that it would be less error prone if I could
just get Samba to read the same global setup file and just use the
environment variable to set the share path.

	/dwight

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