URGENT: REDHAT 6.1 STORES SAMBA PRIVATE FILES IN /etc

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

it's not smb.conf being in /etc that worries me, it's having default
suggested options such as "smbpasswd file = /etc/smbpasswd" in there that
worries me.

smb.conf in /etc i think is a good idea.

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 vorlon at netexpress.net wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 
> > Why doesn't redhat do something like
> > /etc/samba
> > /etc/samba/private
> 
> > with smb.conf in /etc/samba/smb.conf and so on?
> 
> > I had a caldera-samba-distribution where they did
> > /etc/samba.d
> > /etc/samba.d/private
> 
> This tends to be inconsistent with the layout of the /etc directory on
> redhat systems; it's also not backwards-compatible with early Samba
> versions which needed only one config file (smb.conf), which was therefore
> naturally dumped directly to /etc.
> 
> So basically, RedHat doesn't use /etc/samba because there's been no
> overwhelming reason for them to use it. :)
> 
> -Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>