Allow custom smb.conf location

[llamafilm]

This looks like a cool project! I'd like to try it out but my smb.conf file is located at /usr/local/etc/ksmbd/smb.conf. The syntax is mostly the same as with regular samba. Could this tool be modified to allow custom config file location?

[joshuaboud]

Yup that sounds like it shouldn't be too hard to pull off. In the meantime, you should be good to just create a symbolic link at /etc/samba/smb.conf and point it to /usr/local/etc/ksmbd/smb.conf as long as /etc/samba/smb.conf isn't being used by something else. After trying that, Cockpit's file access API replaces the file atomically when modifying, so the symbolic link will be replaced by a regular file. If you aren't using /etc/samba/smb.conf for something else, you can just create it with the following content just to make file-sharing happy:

[global]
	include = registry

and also put include = registry in your real smb.conf in the [global] section to make Samba use the net registry (where file-sharing actually stores its share definitions)

[joshuaboud]

Or you can just put include = registry in your real smb.conf and ignore the warning message that it's misconfigured until custom config locations are implemented.

[llamafilm]

Oh cool, I didn’t know about the registry! It sounds like this should work fine since you’re not even using that file. I will test.