[Samba] locking.tdb - Failed to open byte range locking database

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 bob.reven at unix1.trinity.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> the files locking.tdb and brlock.tdb are indeed missing. in fact looking in
> /var/lock/samba i can only see:
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 Jul 23 16:43 connections.tdb
>     -rw-------    1 root     root          696 Jul 23 16:43 messages.tdb
>     -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 Jul 23 16:43 unexpected.tdb
> 
> why has locking.tdb not been created either by the RPM or more likely when 
> samba was started. 
> 
> can anyone suggest how to resolve this? 

They are created by smbd as needed (when it needs to record 
lock information).  Ignore the error message reported by smbstatus.





cheers, jerry
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