Hi, I have tried to install samba in rh 7.1 and noticed that I do not have the /usr/local/samba directory. so I tried to re-install and uninstall and install again and the darn directory is not there. I'm using rpm -Uv samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm i have also tried installing the samba-common, samba-client and samba-swat manually to be sure the the samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm installed anything it required and still no /usr/local/samba directory. I do not know where to go from here as the linuxdocs.org assumes your package is installed and ready to configure.