Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)
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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