Hi, completely new to linux, only achieved anything by following tutorials so please be gentle.

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS and Samba4 v4.2 with great success, I now have a working AD domain controller. However I just need to understand the reasoning and possible implications of why the installation directory seems to have moved from previous versions.

From virtually every tutorial relatingto samba4 the smb.conf file resides at /etc/samba/. However on my installation it resides at /usr/local/samba/etc/

Now this hasn't been an issue until I tried to install openchange (big mistake as it completely breaks samba or at least my version) Luckily having achieved a working AD I cloned my disk as I suspected nothing could be as easy as following a tutorial.

So if anybody knows, why did they move things, is there anyway to alter this (possibly if anyone knows what version I can install that will be compatible with openchange (version 4.0 ish seems to be what most of the tutorials seem to want) and if I install an older version how do I stop it updating to newer versions with apt-get update/upgrade.

Being honest the tutorial I followed to get Samba working is about the only 1 that did get it working, so I'm a little wary of starting from scratch again.