[Samba] tdb failure when attempting to use Samba

[Christopher Odenbach]

Hi,

> I have successfully implemented Samba in the past but I am now
> perplexed by a new installation which fails smbstatus with the
> message:
> "tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/brlock.tdb: No such file or directory
> Failed to open byte range locking database
> "tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/locking.tdb: No such file or directory
> ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> Can't initialise module exiting"
>
> The files brlock.tdb and locking.tdb are indeed absent but what
> creates them in the first place? I have not had this problem
> previously and I am, as I say, perplexed. For info I an running RH7.3
> and have installed Samba from the RPMS.

The files are created when the first request arrives at the samba 
server. Just do a "smbclient -L localhost" and voila!

Personally I would also prefer samba to create all databases at startup 
just to avoid anoying and confusing error messages.

Regards,

Christopher

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