A while back, rather than add in a new Samba share through the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, I used the GUI tool to add the share. When I went looking to edit some shares tonight, I started digging through the config files… to my initial surprise I was unable to find the share locations in the config file.

A little more searching, and I found the files located in /var/lib/samba/usershares/. I guess the GUI adds a text file for each share into this directory. In a way, I like this slightly better for organization. Yet it confused me at first expecting to find the results in the main config file.

After searching, apparently the smb.conf is old school for share locations. This was introduced into Samba v3.0.23, which itself is from 2007 or so. Guess I need to get out more. Now I want to look if this is the “default” for Ubuntu Server.

Lately I try to avoid politics in my posts, yet I thought this was a really good quote.

“To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper’s online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth…. [O]bjective reality does not change because you refuse to accept it. The fact that you refuse to acknowledge a wall does not change the fact that it’s a wall. And you shouldn’t have to hit it to find that out.” – Leonard Pitts Jr

A while back, I had reformatted my system with HFS+ Case Sensitive. I didn’t have a good reason, other than I was familiar with Unix/Linux file systems. So after a few months of running this way, I reinstalled with HFS+. Reasons? Application support, or lack of. Its been a few months, but off the top of my head the following would not work on HFS+ CS.

-Adobe CS4 Suite
-Oracle IRM
-World of Warcraft

On top of the application issues, it is highly annoying when my backed up data cannot be copied from my HFS+ CS DMG due to file name conflicts. I had to manually change names, and merge folders. Ugh!