FHS defaults for samba4

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 6 15:30:12 GMT 2006


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John H Terpstra wrote:

>> - locking databases (non-persistent)
>>               /var/run/samba      PREFIX/var/run
>> - cache databases (winbindd cache)
>>               /var/cache/samba   PREFIX/var/cache
>> - 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?)
> 
> 
> Red Hat and SuSE have opposing conventions here. I doubt that 
> either will change on that score.

I would put everything in /var/lib/samba.  That's pretty universal
at this point I think.

The printing caches should be in /var/lib/samba for sure since
they should persist across reboots to maintain any paused job
Windows attributes.



cheers, jerry
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