SAMBA stopped working after a system crash

[Andrew Bartlett]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> I think smbd is running. The STATUS..LCK file is not used with samba when
> you compile from sources, so, it much be something in the samba startup
> script.

The STATUS..LCK is used by Samba, but only in 2.0.x, the 2.2 and HEAD
versions don't use it any more.  It is created by smbd if it doesn't
exist, and touching it is fine - and gets rid of the 'error' message.


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