smb.conf

vda vda at port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Fri Dec 21 01:38:03 GMT 2001


On Friday 21 December 2001 03:11, Peter Lee wrote:
> Why is the Samba running on my machine using /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
> instead of the one is /etc/samba/smb.conf ?
>
> When I do a testparm, it is reading the one in /etc/samba/smb.conf
> But when it runs, it is actually using the one in
> /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf

It's a configure-time parameter.
You did a configure before compiling, right?
Please run configure --help and read it.

Personally I think it's a good practice to supply all configure parameters. 
Do not rely on defaults. Anyway, almost none of those defaults are suitable 
for me.
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vda




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