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Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)



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?

Regards

Clive

> 
> Krum
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:39:07 -0500
> Kevin Krumwiede <kjkrum@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I run Debian on a shared file server in my home.  Last week when I did
> > a apt-get update/apt-get upgrade, samba was updated.  The next day
> > when I tried to listen to some music... nothing was there.
> > 
> > Seems that the latest samba update decided it was going to remove the
> > user 'samba' from my system, along with samba's home directory...
> > which happened to contain all my shares.
> > 
> > I shut the machine down as soon as I realized what had happened. 
> > [...]

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