[Samba] How to control TEMP directory

[Howard Miller]

Ahhh.... I didn't notice the packaging stuff at all. I have now found Buchan' site with all the prebuilt 
rpms. I wish I had known about that a couple of days ago - oh well!

Yes I have read the howto's reasonably extensively (although abviously managing to skip the most 
important bits).

The LDAP section assumes you know something about LDAP - although I can't really complain 
about this. A complete idiots guide to setting up the LDAP server might be nice, but I'm starting to 
feel the heat already :-).   I'll go and read about it!

I'll have a go with the Mandrake rpms and see what happens... watch this space.

Thanks! Much better off than half an hour ago....

Howard

Quoting John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org>:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Howard Miller wrote:
> 
> Those who prepare the packaging for Linux systems go to much trouble
> to
> solve this sort of issue. The easiest way to build RPS for your
> platform
> is:
> 
> 1. cd ~samba/packaging/Mandrake
> 2. sh makerpms.sh
> 
> That should build your RPMS and you should find them in
> /usr/src/packaging/RPMS/i386
> 
> If these have the same problem then please post to this list and
> chances
> are the Buchan Milne (who handles the Mandrake RPMs) will chip in to
> help
> you over the humps.
> 
> In the ~samba/docs directory you should find the
> Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf file. It is reasonably current (will soon
> be
> published as a book by Prentice-Hall - that version is a little more
> recent and thus more up to date).
> 
> This HOWTO has information about just about every topic you might
> need.
> If it is deficient in any area please let me know - that way I can fix
> it.
> 
> Let me know how else I can help you.
> 
> - John T.
> 
> 
> > Thanks for taking an interest before we go any further...
> >
> > I am building this on Mandrake 9.1. I used the latest beta release of
> Samba.
> >
> > I unzipped it and then....
> > cd source
> > ./configure
> > make
> > su
> > make install
> >
> > Worked fine (although config.log did show some comilatio errors in
> "test" programs), installed and
> > on the face of it ran. Rapidly came unstuck with temp file problems
> though. Oher basic
> > functionality seems fine (as long as you log in as root on the Windoze
> machine :-) )
> >
> > BTW: I was keen on using the mysql support (as I don't have the first
> clue about LDAP) but couldn't
> > get this to work at all. The version test program (well I guess that's
> what it is) failed to compile
> > with lots of undefined identifier errors. If I disabled the test
> program then mysql.so wouldn't
> > compile anyway. I had to download and compile my own MySql into
> /usr/local/mysql before even
> > getting that far. So back to smbpasswd at the moment.
> >
> > Howard
> >
> > Quoting John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org>:
> >
> > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Howard Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes I did build the binaries myself.... I have had a really bad
> time
> > > with Samba 3, considering earlier
> > > > versions have posed no problems at all.
> > >
> > > What platform are you building this on?
> > >
> > > What steps are you following to build this?
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Where do you think I might have gone wrong with the temp thing?
> > >
> > > There are a number of gotcha's that could have hit you in the
> face.
> > > Let's
> > > take this one step at a time.
> > >
> > > - John T.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Quoting John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org>:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Howard Miller wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > This is a slight rework of my last question but should be
> > > clearer.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My samba installation appears to be trying to use /root/tmp
> as
> > > its
> > > > > temp directory. This is
> > > > > > useless as when logged in as a user the system has no access
> to
> > > the
> > > > > temp directory and so
> > > > > > nothing works. How do I pursaude Samba to use /tmp as the
> temp
> > > dir. I
> > > > > am running Samba
> > > > > > 3 on a Mandrake system.
> > > > >
> > > > > Make sure that your TMPDIR in the environment is set to "/tmp"
> > > before
> > > > > you
> > > > > launch smbd. ie:In the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb script, before
> > > executing
> > > > > smbd
> > > > > add an entry that says:
> > > > >
> > > > > export TMPDIR=/tmp
> > > > >
> > > > > That should solve your immediate problems.
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you build the samba binaries yourself?
> > > > >
> > > > > - John T.
> > > > > --
> > > > > John H Terpstra
> > > > > Email: jht at samba.org
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> >
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