Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)

From: Damon L. Chesser (damon_at_damtek.com)
Date: 04/22/05

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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:16:59 -0500

    On Friday 22 April 2005 16:11, Clive Menzies wrote:
    > Hi Kevin
    >
    > Please don't top post; it makes it difficult for people to follow the
    > thread :)
    Personel pref. Please don't spam the list with your pref. becuse someone does
    it diff. then you would. Linux it choice.
    >
    > On (22/04/05 15:23), Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:14:03 +0100
    > > Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
    > >
    > > > On (22/04/05 07:09), Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
    > > > > I booted up my file server, resigned to the fact that I wasn't going
    > > > > to recover anything from the ext3 filesystem. But a quick df
    > > > > revealed that my shares weren't deleted after all; they were just
    > > > > moved.
    > > > >
    > > > > Today when I updated samba again, the same thing happened: all my
    > > > > shares were moved into /var/lib/samba, but smb.conf was not updated
    > > > > so they became inaccessible.
    > > > >
    > > > > 1. Why does samba take such liberties with my system?
    > > > > 2. How do I stop this from happening every time I update?
    > > > It may be something to do with where you've set up your samba share;
    > > > can you post the relevant section of smb.conf?
    > > >
    > > [public]
    > > path = /var/samba/public
    > > guest ok = true
    > > guest only = true
    > > writeable = true
    > >
    > > [kevin]
    > > path = /var/samba/kevin
    > > hosts allow = 192.168.1.3
    > > valid users = kevin
    > > guest ok = false
    > > case sensitive = true
    > > hide dot files = false
    > > writeable = true
    > This is the source of your problem /var is used by the system when
    > installing and configuring packages, it is NOT for data (other than
    > logfiles) - put all your data under /home.
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Clive
    >
    >
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