[Samba] Samba rpm and /var/*/samba directory for .tdb files

Dimitri Yioulos dyioulos at firstbhph.com
Mon Feb 6 18:47:47 GMT 2006


On Monday February 06 2006 1:08 pm, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> Hi,
> I use CentOS4 (RHEL4) and it seems that I was using /var/lib/samba
> for storing the .tdb files. Then I compilled the fedora .src.rpm from
> samba.org
> and it points now to /var/cache/samba
>
> I will build tonight the .rpm from the .tar.gz and see which directory
> samba choose for the .tdb files in CentOS4.
>
> Anyone can confirm this list of distro/.tdb directory:
> Fedora: /var/cache/samba
> CentOS4: /var/lib/samba
> RH9: /var/lib/samba
> ?
>
> Many thanks
> Oliver
>

I can't speak to RH9, but I'm running CentOS 3 and 4, and FC2 boxes here.  As 
to those, the tdb files are stored as you suspected:

Fedora: /var/cache/samba
CentOS4: /var/lib/samba

HTH.

Dimitri

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