[Samba] Error: Failed to initialise locking database

J.Strohschnitter svebu at gmx.de
Wed Jun 12 22:55:03 GMT 2002


Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 03:04 schrieb Ryan L. Hackl:
> Greetings!
>
> After successfully setting up the printer using my RedHat Linux 7.2 (using
> command-line interface), and after installing my ethernet card (again,
> using command-line interface), I've tried to setup my linux server to share
> the printer with Windows-based machines.
>
> I thought I pretty much did everything right, but when I type a 
"smbstatus", I get the following:
> >Samba version 2.2.1a
> >Service      uid     gid     pid     machine
> >---------------------------------------------
> >Failed to open byte range locking database
> >ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> >Can't initialise locking module - exiting
>
> Where can I look (I assume in the smb.conf file) to find out where the
> problem may be?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer to this question.  Not even a search on
> google produced much help...
>
> - Ryan

Hi,

this is no error - the database will be created at first login from a client.
After login you can start smbstatus and there will no error displayed!


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