compiling issues with directories
Greg J. Zartman
greg at kwikfind.com
Thu Mar 15 19:13:56 GMT 2001
Kevin,
If you are installing from the sources for the first time, then you'll need
to play around with the pathing a little. Here is a document that speaks
well to this issue
home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html
Look on page 8.
Good luck
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Chan" <kkc at uclink4.berkeley.edu>
To: <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: compiling issues with directories
> Hi to everyone,
>
> I have been trying to install Samba 2.0.7 on my Redhat Linux 6.2 as both a
> file server and an NT domain controller. I am encountering a problem that
> is quite odd and I am not sure why I am having this problem.
>
> When I installed Redhat, I had it install the samba files thinking that I
> would just overwrite them with the samba 2.0.7 install. However, after
> compiling and installing samba, there is no smb.conf file in the lib
> directory and no private folder. This issue is easily overcome as I have
a
> copy of smb.conf from the redhat install of samba (it installs it in
> /etc/samba) and I can create the smbpasswd file by calling the smbpasswd
> binary.
>
> However, the mapping of the directories appear to be from the redhat
> install of samba. When I start smbd, it is still looking for the smb.conf
> file in /etc/samba, not /usr/local/samba/lib. And when I create an
> smbpasswd file by calling the smbpasswd binary, it creates it in
> /etc/samba/private). I have reconfigured the 2.0.7 samba and this problem
> still exists.
>
> Any insight on this matter will be welcomed.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kevin Chan
> Systems Administrator
> Administrative Computing
>
>
>
>
>
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