Re: [Sheflug] Shared folder location in directory tree

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Chris Johnson" uttered these words of wisdom:
>
> As far as standard locations go where should I create a folder to act as a
> shared area for users on my Samba server?  They will each have access to
> their own /home/ folder but they need somewhere they can put shared work.
>
> AFAICT its not really important but I might as well do it right first
> time.
>

There is no "right", as it depends completely on your filesystem hierachy
and partitions. /export is one I've seen, mostly on Solaris, but that
requires you have a partition mounted at that point (you don't want users
writing to the root partition because full root partition == bad). I've
also seen /disk1 through to /disk4 as this was a machine with five disks
(one disk holding the OS, the other four holding shared data). Yet another
machine here at work has it's shared areas under /usr2/samba-shares/

It's only "right" as far as your system is configured :) Choose somewhere,
and if it makes sense to someone else, it's probably a fair place to put
it.

Chris...

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