[Samba] Some questions about ./configure and smb.conf options

[Daniel Carmo Olops]

(sorry for my English, it's not soooo good...)

I'm playing fair well with Samba, but I've always
installed it via apt-get, and now I want to install it
from source, which allows me to create optimized and
updated binaries. Plus, I want to optimize my smb.conf
for my scenario. 

As a result, I've got several questions about some
./configure and smb.conf options that I don't
understand exactly what they do and when or how to
use, so I'd like to get help. There are plenty of
them, so please be patient :-) Here they go:

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./CONFIGURE QUESTIONS:

- What's about the --with-fhs option? In raw words,
does it configures Samba to install configuration
files in /etc/, var files in /var, and so on?

- What does the --with-smbwrapper option stands for?
When I use it, I get `make` errors (Samba 3.0.23rc2 on
Debian Sarge 3.1).

- Is the --with-pam option useful only in setups with
share level security?

- What's the difference between --with-quotas and
--with-sys-quotas? I want to enable User quotas on a
XFS partition (no LVM, no RAID), so what option suits
my need?

- The --with-aio-support was claimed "experimental" on
Samba 3.0.20. Now it's production-ready? And I
couldn't find definitions on the "aio read size", "aio
write size" and "aio write behind" options in the
smb.conf man page...

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SMB.CONF QUESTIONS:

- Is the "ea support" option in smb.conf useful for
Windows clients, or only to OS/2 ones?

- The "inherit acls" and "inherit permissions" seems
very similar to me. I'm new to POSIX ACLs, so I'm
stuck in this one...

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That's all for now. Thanks in advance for help.

[]s

Daniel Olops

"Tudo o que sei é que não sei de nada" (Sócrates)


		
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