FHS defaults for samba4

[Michael Sweet]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> As we move towards the tech preview, I have been thinking about old
> Samba habits that should not die hard.
> 
> One of these is FHS.  The use of lib for the smb.conf file in the
> default prefix and the like has been with us for many long years, and we
> need to fix that up.  In Samba3, debian and the like have patches that
> change Samba's core to fix this up (even in addition to the --with-fhs
> configure option), but we should avoid having to do that.
> 
> Can I have some advise/confirmation, on where we should have:
> ...
>  - include files
>                /usr/include         PREFIX/include

Unless you only have 1 include file, please us a subdir, e.g.:

     /usr/include/samba4

> ...
>  - plugins
>                /usr/lib             PREFIX/lib

/usr/lib/samba, unless they will be used outside samba...

 > ...
>  - printing (persistent cache, but you loose print job tracking if you
> scrub it)
>                /var/lib/samba     PREFIX/var/
>    (or should this be /var/cache/samba or /var/spool/samba?)

I'd say /var/spool/samba.

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