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What Goes Where When I Type Make Install?

Whatever version of Samba you compile, when the binaries are ready, you can install the files to the directory specified by the prefix (or BASEDIR) variable in the make file by typing make install. I assume here, and for the rest of this book, that Samba has been installed to the default location of /usr/local/samba/.

This creates the Samba directory tree, if necessary, and copies over the binaries and other relevant files. When completed, the following directories should exist in the Samba install directory unless you have overridden the locations in the make file:

• bin/  This directory contains the smbd and nmbd binaries and any other utilities included with Samba.



• lib/  This directory contains the smb.conf and lmhosts files and the codepage support files in a codepages/ subdirectory.



• var/  This directory is empty until Samba is first run. At that time, the smbd and nmbd daemons create the lock files, shared memory files, browse list information file, and possibly the WINS databases. Under Samba 2.0, smbd.pid and nmbd.pid files are also contained along with the process ID of the currently running daemons. These are useful for easy restarting. This is also the default location for the Samba log files.



• man/  The Samba man pages are located in various subdirectories here. If you want the pages located in your man page search path, you can either move the files to an existing man page location or add them to your MANPATH environment variable. For example, if the Samba man pages are located in /usr/local/samba/man, under the Bourne shell or bash, you can append this directory to the existing search path by setting

MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/samba/man

• swat/  This directory contains the files for the GUI smb.conf editor SWAT, which is discussed more in Hour 9, "GUI Administration Tools."

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