samba on solaris 2.8 not creating STATUS..LCK file

[Robert Dahlem]

Daniel,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:26:59 -0600, Daniel_Casey at jbhunt.com wrote:

>Well, I tried to make a connection to /tmp on my
>Samba server and log.smb shows:
>
>[2000/12/14 19:22:45, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(597)
>  ERROR: root did not create the semaphore
>[2000/12/14 19:22:45, 0] locking/locking.c:locking_init(174)
>  ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes

This is something completely different (STATUS..LCK is just something 
that follows) and a serious problem with Samba on your system.

If this is Samba 2.0.5a or earlier, it is a known problem. Please 
upgrade to 2.0.7 in this case.

Regards,
        Robert

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