[Samba] Failed to initialize locking database

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Mar 18 09:28:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Lew Schwartz wrote:

>   I'm checking a failed, out of the box rh7.2 install and smbstatus is
> exiting with the error message: "failed to initialize locking database,"
> Can anyone help troubleshoot a remedy?
>     More generally is there a browseable list of all samba related error
> messages that I can search somewhere?

No central list of error messages really.  Sorry.  Sounds like you are 
using a older version of Samba though.  Did you start smbd/nmbd before 
running smbstatus?











cheers, jerry
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