samba - Mar 2016 - changing location for the profiles and sysvol folder

Is it possible to define a different location for the profiles and sysvol folder
during the provision of samba4 ? how can I do it ?

On 02/03/16 13:04, Yosel Lazaro Vera Gonzalez wrote:
> Is it possible to define a different location for the profiles and sysvol
folder during the provision of samba4 ? how can I do it ?
No, You cannot do this, during the provision a smb.conf is created that 
is based on how Samba was configured when compiled, no profiles share is 
created and sysvol is hard coded to be in PREFIX/var/

You could compile Samba yourself and set ' --localstatedir' to wherever 
you want the 'sysvol' directory to be created, but this would also 
affect everything else that ends up in PREFIX/var/.

Rowland

Hello Yosel,

Am 02.03.2016 um 14:04 schrieb Yosel Lazaro Vera
Gonzalez:
> Is it possible to define a different location for the
> profiles and sysvol folder during the provision of
> samba4 ? how can I do it ?
* Stop Samba
* Change the paths in smb.conf for
  * your profile share
  * sysvol + netlogon share (the latter is a shared
    subfolder of the sysvol path)
* Move the folders to the new location
* Start Samba


You can see, by using "smbstatus" during a domain member logon, that
the
Sysvol stuff is loaded by the Windwos client from the new location:

Locked files:
Pid          Uid        DenyMode   Access      R/W        Oplock
   SharePath   Name   Time
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1094         10000      DENY_WRITE 0x120089    RDONLY
EXCLUSIVE+BATCH  /sysvol
samdom.example.com/Policies/{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}/GPT.INI
  Wed Mar  2 17:32:25 2016


Also "samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset" uses the path from smb.conf and
fixes ACLs on the new destination, if necessary.


Regards,
Marc