How to put samba in your environment Path

[Toxic64]

If you installed samba from git, by default it goes in /usr/local/samba/.../...

Here is a way to configure is so you can use samba commands from anywhere..

Just edit your /etc/environment file :

sudo nano /etc/environement

now add :/usr/local/samba/bin:/usr/local/samba/sbin before the ending quote

Save and close.

Now you can use your samba commands from anywhere at the prompt without having to type /usr/local/samba/.../.../

[TheFu]

Or ... change just YOUR settings and not those for the entire installation by modifying your ~/.bashrc file. Add a line like this:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

Notice how I added a personal "$HOME/bin" to my path? That is handy for any power-user to have their scripts available.

The enterprising scripter might want to check if /usr/local was already inside the path before adding. That line above doesn't prevent multiple additions. PATHs can get overly long with duplicates if we aren't careful.

[JnPson]

What are the benefit and downsides between these two?

[TheFu]

Post #2 has the benefits and downsides ... or did I miss something?

[Toxic64]

Yep that's true.

BUT...

If Samba 4 is installed as an AD server, having only the administrator loging, it doesn't change much.
You don't create multiple profiles with the ability to login and play with your LDAP server on an enterprise infrastructure.
anyway, I wouldn't.