Hi everybody, I just happen to find some trouble with samba, the /root/tmp problem. Just examining the daemon running, I found there where started with TMPDIR=/root/tmp environment.. So, just take a look in /etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh and tmpdir.csh. There is defined the TMPDIR variable, according to the security level, it's set to $HOME/tmp. So when the samba daemon is started at boot, it uses /root/tmp as TMPDIR and of course break when a non root user try to access that directory. So, instead of chmoding /tmp/root 777, I slightly modified the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb script, exporting TMPDIR=/tmp right before launching the daemons. It seems to fix the problem. Not being a security expert, I'm not sure it's the best way to make things work, but not working at all is a little too much secure for me. Any best way known to make things work ? Hope this helps JMM
