[Samba] RE: Disappearing groupmap entries.

[Erik Hoitinga]

A couple of days ago I posted a question about groupmapping disappearing 
when I rebooted my samba server. Well I solved the problem my self. The 
problem was this piece of code below in my /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (RedHat 
8.0) where the var directory is cleaned up:

# Clean up /var.  I'd use find, but /usr may not be mounted.
for afile in /var/lock/* /var/run/* ; do
        if [ -d "$afile" ]; then
           case "`basename $afile`" in
                news|sudo|mon)    ;;
                *)              rm -f $afile/* ;;
           esac
        else
           rm -f $afile
        fi
done

I changed the line "news|sudo|mon)    ;;" into "news|sudo|mon|samba)    ;;
and
the problem was solved.

For some reason all my tdb files are stored in /var/lock/samba. Can I change
this location without recompiling samba?

Cheers,

Erik