[Samba] Broken samba

[Bob Williams]

Hello Helmut,

On Saturday 26 September 2009 10:17:00 Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Bob,
> 
> Du meintest am 26.09.09:
> > barrowhillfarm:~ # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf
> >
> > ERROR: lock directory file:///var/lib/samba does not exist
> > ERROR: state directory file:///var/lib/samba does not exist
> > ERROR: cache directory file:///var/lib/samba does not exist
> > ERROR: pid directory file:///var/run/samba does not exist
> >
> >
> > Why are those lock, state, cache and pid directory files missing? I
> > can't believe I'm supposed to create them myself ;) The testparm
> > command was run as root, so it can't be a permissions problem.
> 
> What tells
> 
>         ls -ld /var/lib/samba
>         ls -ld /var/run/samba
> 
barrowhillfarm:~ # ls -ld /var/lib/samba
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 24 11:01 /var/lib/samba
barrowhillfarm:~ # ls -ld /var/run/samba
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 24 11:01 /var/run/samba
barrowhillfarm:~ #

Thanks,

Bob
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