[GLLUG] Ubuntu configuration cache

[Charles Ulrich]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 12:11, Stanley C. Mortel wrote:
> Samba got messed up and I decided to just uninstall and reinstall it.
>  But, even though I did a "complete removal" in synaptic, when I
> reinstalled, everything came back configured just as before.  In
> particular, running pdbedit -L shows the same users as before even
> though the samba users file was deleted (and indeed does not even
> exist in the /etc/samba directory.
>
> So, clearly things are getting cached somewhere and I'll need to
> manually delete them to really do a fresh install.  But I can't find
> it.  Anyone know where such things might be kept?  I did try "locate
> samba" after the uninstall, but nothing of note showed up.  (I will
> try a "locate .*samba to try to find hidden files/dirctories later
> today).
>
> Thanks in advance.

Check /var/lib/samba/private/ or search your filesystem for a file named 
"secrets.tdb". Delete or move the files in that directory and you 
should be in business.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com