samba - Mar 2001 - samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 2.6 - Running from alternate directory

We have Samba running on many UNIX boxes but this is the first time we have
tried to install to a path different from /usr/local/samba

Although the configure and Makefile appear correct and place the files into
our preferred path (/data2 as opposed to /usr) whenever we run testparm or
try to start smbd/nmbd it is looking for smb.conf under
/usr/local/samba/lib and a locks directory under /usr/local/samba/var

I have obviously missed something very obvious but cannot see what it is
for the life of me...  :(

Any assistance would be appreciated.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 Rod.Kruse@soe.securicor.co.uk wrote:
> Although the configure and Makefile appear correct and place the files into
> our preferred path (/data2 as opposed to /usr) whenever we run testparm or
> try to start smbd/nmbd it is looking for smb.conf under
> /usr/local/samba/lib and a locks directory under /usr/local/samba/var
> 
> I have obviously missed something very obvious but cannot see what it is
> for the life of me...  :(
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
What's wrong with /usr/local/samba ... :)


If you ./configure'd properly it should work.
./configure --prefix=/data2/foo/baz ; make ; make install

If you first configured and then moved things it probably won't, or if you 
didn't move the prefix.


testparm looks at CONFIGFILE, which is defined as:
source/Makefile.in:CONFIGFILE = $(LIBDIR)/smb.conf

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