Re: samba printing

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:56:44AM -0600, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> Does anyone find it disturbing besides me that on a default install of samba,

you can (and should) define a different directory for print spooling I have

[printers]

   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba/printers
   ...

in my smb.conf and /var/spool/samba/printers is 1777

> Does anyone understand the misc files located there? Is it safe to do this,

afaik these are database files used by samba (not necessarily printing related) and should not be world writable perhaps /var/samba is a better place?

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Can Received on Fri Mar 28 13:30:20 2003