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Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)



[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


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?
> 
> 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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