[Samba] Error on locking database

[John H Terpstra]

Jim, Andy,

This is a known feature.

Go ahead and do the following for a valid user:

	smbclient //localhost/'username' -U'username'

Enter the password and make the connection. It if does not work you have a
problem. If it does, then quit out. Then do:

	smbstatus

It should now work without trouble.

You see, smbstatus tries to access te lock file, which does not exist
until smbd has created it (which happens as soon as you make a
connection).

- John T.

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Van Sickler, Jim wrote:

> run testparm
> check the "lock dir" entry; it's
> possible that the specified dir doesn't exist
> and/or has the wrong rights.
>
> The default dir is set to /var/spool/lock on mine.
> Older samba releases were in /var/lock, IIRC.
>
> Jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A. Dishong [mailto:adishong at attbi.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:07 AM
> > To: samba at samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] Error on locking database
> >
> >
> > I have installed Samba 2.2.2 on Solaris 8 Sun Blade.  Samba
> > starts but I
> > can not see any workgroup and when "smbstatus" is started I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > Samba version 2.2.2
> > Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Failed to open byte range locking database
> > ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> > Can't initialise locking module - exiting
> >
> > Any ideas, thanks Andy
> >
> >
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org