Same error once again.

[Thomas Cameron]

Sorry, I should have made clear - I installed on Solaris 8/Sparc. 
However, I just got done installing on Red Hat 7, compiling from source.

I ran:

tar zxvf samba-latest.tar.gz
cd samba-2.2.0/source
./configre --prefix=/opt/samba
make
make install
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/samba/bin:/opt/samba/sbin
smbpasswd -a [username]

Then I made sure that the following line was in /etc/services:

swat		901/tcp				# Samba Web Administration Tool

Also, made sure that the file /etc/xinetd.d/swat looks like this:

# default: off
# description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
#	       to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
#	       connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
service swat
{
	disable	= no
	port	= 901
	socket_type	= stream
	wait 	= no
	only_from = 127.0.0.1
	user	= root
	server	= /opt/samba/sbin/swat
	log_on_failure	+= USERID
}

I restarted xinetd by issuing the command:

service xinetd restart

Then I used Netscape to access SWAT:

netscape http://localhost:901

I then set up the workgroup info, WINS server address, and so on. 
Finally, I created a quick start/stop script in /etc/rc.d/init.d:

#!/bin/bash
# smb - script to start/stop Samba
# chkconfig: 235 89 15
# description: Samba daemon

case $1 in
  start)
    /opt/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
    /opt/samba/sbin/smbd -D
    ;;
  stop)
    #  OK, this is a little brutal, but it works
    killall nmbd smbd &> /dev/null
    killall -9 nmbd smbd &> /dev/null
    ;;
  restart)
    $0 stop
    $0 start
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage:  $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac

I then ran chkconfig smb reset to set the symlinks in the various
/etc/rc.d directories.

Voila!  When I run /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start (or just "service smb
start"), a quick ps command gives me:

[root at conjurer /root]# ps ax | grep mb
 2604 ?        S      0:00 /opt/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
 2606 ?        S      0:00 /opt/samba/sbin/smbd -D

Hope this helps.

Thomas

Trevor Benson wrote:
> 
> Tom,
> 
>    What linux did you install on? It seems Redhat is moving further and
> further away from standard locations for their stuff :(., I am not sure
> where the $SAMBAHOME directory is if its not /etc/samba, and that had no
> var/lock, I added it from the data inside /var/lock/samba to see if it was
> that, but still it appears to do nothing to resolve. Every other Samba
> install I have done has pretty much been turn-key, and no problems at all,
> 2.0.5a 2.0.7 and whatever the version I used before 2.0.5 was.  I turned on
> debug, and the messages that come across all seem to be fine, I don't see
> anything that looks like it didn't work properly, and lots of adds and other
> messages in the log itself.
> 
>    Has ANYONE done a Redhat install from the RPM? Does it work for you on a
> stock Redhat 7 system? I figured moving my smb.conf in place that was
> working with the older versions should just bring this up, since that always
> worked before. So far this has been the toughest install of samba I have run
> into, and its just because it doesn't appear anyone else has had these
> problems.  Although I still havnt heard anything from anyone on Redhat
> installs.  I am about to blow out the RH server again and rebuild and then
> install from source this time with no previous samba on the system.  The
> install instructions are not too tough but I did this once before on 6.1 and
> 6.2 and had the exact same errors.  Who builds the RPM's, and do they
> customize their RH install when they put samba in?
> 
>    Also did the 'samba' command disappear? I used to be able to run samba
> stop|start|status|restart (was this a redhat script or something? Just seems
> to be gone now).
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Thomas Cameron [mailto:archimage at linux-magic.com]
> Sent:   Monday, April 30, 2001 7:13 PM
> To:     Samba List (E-mail)
> Subject:        Re: Same error once again.
> 
> I dunno if this helps, but I have a $SAMBAHOME/var/locks directory.
> Maybe this is missing?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Trevor Benson wrote:
> >
> > I just built a brandnew Redhat 7.1 server. I installed the RPM package
> from
> > ftp.samba.org <ftp://ftp.samba.org>  and after I run the smbd and nmbd I
> > still end up with this error below. I have checked this list, and gone
> > through the Project Doc's and the FAQ's. Nothing seems to reference the
> > locking database not initializing.  Has anyone else had this issue?  On a
> > fresh system with the RPM I wouldn't expect to have this much trouble,
> > that's why I left the old server as is and tried to move forward with a
> test
> > box to see if I couldn't resolve this. Any help or idea's would be
> > appreciated. The log.smbd and nmbd have NOTHING in them at this point. Im
> > not really sure what to do.
> >
> > Samba version 2.2.0
> > Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Failed to open byte range locking database
> > ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> > Can't initialise locking module - exiting
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Trevor Benson
> > Director of Information Technology
> > Associated Business Products
> >
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