TNG "no locking available" error, HP/UX

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hi gregory,

regarding the requirement to run ./configure on a local filesystem, to
check locking, that's just the way it is.  it's that way in cvs main, it's
that way in 2_0.

this makes it clear that you cannot expect to run samba off of a non-local
file system, for example putting var/locks/ or private/ on a non-local
file system, i'm sorry: that is just a really dumb thing to do.

have samba accessing private/smbpasswd over nfs???

apart from the security implications, it will also result in
inconsistencies in the smbpasswd file because locking over nfs may not
work correctly.

i've seen it happen... :)

now, as for installing the binaries on a non-root file system, that's
different.

luke

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