Comment 3 for bug 50385

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:33, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:13:03PM -0400, Jeffrey Layton wrote:
> > Ack just noticed that that patch segment I posted is actually to an old
> > samba version and doesn't look like it applies to 3.0.2a. Still though,
> > I can't seem to get the "private dir" option to work. My suspicion is
> > that it has something to do with --with-fhs. I'm running the same
> > version of samba on some solaris machines that I built myself and am not
> > having this problem there.
>
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Is there a reason you wouldn't symlink or bind-mount /var/lib/samba to
> point to your shared disk? This is the FHS-mandated location for such
> data, and everything in this directory (not just the secrets.tdb) would
> be relevant to an HA system. There is very little reason why it should
> be necessary to support arbitrary directory paths for these files in a
> Debian system.

I would however warn that you *must not* share a TDB over NFS. This
will only break things.

Andrew Bartlett

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