Bug 5403 – samba requires a "home directory" in /home

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Bug 5403 - samba requires a "home directory" in /home

Summary:	samba requires a "home directory" in /home

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	samba (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	1999-09-27 15:24 EDT by Michael Tokarev
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-10-05 11:20:06 EDT
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Description Michael Tokarev 1999-09-27 15:24:43 EDT

samba server package installs a "homedir" /home/samba
that is included in cpio archive. If a customer have an
nfs-mounted home directory (via automount, very common
for Solaris, for example), installing samba on "non-root"
machine will fail with message "unable to create
/home/samba"). This is a some general question -- why
samba need that directory?!

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-05 11:20:59 EDT

Removed in samba-2.0.5a-14, in the next Raw Hide release.

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