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

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Monday February 06 2006 1:47 pm, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> 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
>

Sorry for replying to my own post, but I should note that I use the latest 
Samba release from the Samba team.  I build the RPMs from their source RPMs.  
Doing this results in the tdb files being located as you suspected.

Dimitri

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