[Samba] Read-only fs

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:57:35AM +0100, Kacper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a read-only fs and samba fails to start with the error message:
> 
> Failed to open /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb
> 
> The file exists there but is of course read-only. Does samba need to
> write to this secret file or why doesn't it want to open that file?

Samba needs to be able to write to its tdb files whilst running,
it needs to have read-write access to its internal state data.

Jeremy.