I still haven't installed Samba, as I'm still in the planning stages. Again, I'm new to Samba, and I discover our Windows pro isn't quite up on the newer stuff since it's been years since he ran domains. I'm a little confused about this thing called "SysVol". Reading up on it, it appears a real important part of an AD, but I don't see how or when it's created. Can someone give me a clue as to when/how it's created? During the provisioning, perhaps? Which brings me to wonder the following: On our current Netware system that is being replaced, we have multiple volumes which we will use on our future Samba stuff. When we create these volumes, which I assume will just be directories and turned into shares, is the directory tree important? Do these volumes have to be on the same partition? Can each volume be a separate partition? Do these reside under the SysVol partition or can they be anywhere? Thanks for any insight. steve campbell
On 2014-05-22 15:35, Steve Campbell wrote:> I'm a little confused about this thing called "SysVol". Reading up on > it, it appears a real important part of an AD, but I don't see how or > when it's created. > > Can someone give me a clue as to when/how it's created? During the > provisioning, perhaps?It's done automatically during provisioning. You will need to set up replication for it, however.> Which brings me to wonder the following:Other shares are completely independent from SysVol and can be anywhere on your system. -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en, / Best Regards, Sven Schwedas Systemadministrator TAO Beratungs- und Management GmbH | Lendplatz 45 | A - 8020 Graz Mail/XMPP: sven.schwedas at tao.at | +43 (0)680 301 7167 http://software.tao.at -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 665 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20140522/c7d907e1/attachment.pgp>
On 22/05/14 14:35, Steve Campbell wrote:> I still haven't installed Samba, as I'm still in the planning stages. > Again, I'm new to Samba, and I discover our Windows pro isn't quite up > on the newer stuff since it's been years since he ran domains.Firstly, either your 'Windows pro' is lying to you, or doesn't deserve to use the word 'pro', Active Directory has been about since 2000 at least and NT domains before that ;-)> > I'm a little confused about this thing called "SysVol". Reading up on > it, it appears a real important part of an AD, but I don't see how or > when it's created.Sysvol is where AD stores GPO's and scripts and will be created when the domain is provisioned.> > Can someone give me a clue as to when/how it's created? During the > provisioning, perhaps? > > Which brings me to wonder the following: > > On our current Netware system that is being replaced, we have multiple > volumes which we will use on our future Samba stuff. When we create > these volumes, which I assume will just be directories and turned into > shares, is the directory tree important? Do these volumes have to be > on the same partition? Can each volume be a separate partition? Do > these reside under the SysVol partition or can they be anywhere? >You can put directories to share anywhere, you just have to create the entry for the share in smb.conf and enter put the path to the share into the entry i.e. [sharename] path = /path/to/directory read only = No Just dont put the shares into Sysvol. Rowland> Thanks for any insight. > > steve campbell
Hi,> Do these volumes have to be on the same partition? > Can each volume be a separate partition? > Do these reside under the SysVol partition or can they be anywhere?Sysvol is a particular share used when you want to use samba as a Active Directory Domain Controler. this share must not contain data (your volumes). a volume can be a partition or a directory into a partition. it's depend how you want to manage your server. What netware version have you ? regards St?phane Purnelle ----------------------------------- St?phane PURNELLE Admin. Syst?mes et R?seaux Service Informatique Corman S.A. Tel : 00 32 (0)87/342467 samba-bounces at lists.samba.org wrote on 22/05/2014 15:35:01:> De : Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> > A : samba at lists.samba.org, > Date : 22/05/2014 15:35 > Objet : [Samba] SysVol questions > Envoy? par : samba-bounces at lists.samba.org > > I still haven't installed Samba, as I'm still in the planning stages. > Again, I'm new to Samba, and I discover our Windows pro isn't quite up > on the newer stuff since it's been years since he ran domains. > > I'm a little confused about this thing called "SysVol". Reading up on > it, it appears a real important part of an AD, but I don't see how or > when it's created. > > Can someone give me a clue as to when/how it's created? During the > provisioning, perhaps? > > Which brings me to wonder the following: > > On our current Netware system that is being replaced, we have multiple > volumes which we will use on our future Samba stuff. When we create > these volumes, which I assume will just be directories and turned into > shares, is the directory tree important? Do these volumes have to be on > the same partition? Can each volume be a separate partition? Do these > reside under the SysVol partition or can they be anywhere? > > Thanks for any insight. > > steve campbell > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba