Samba error

[Tomasz Orzechowski]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:43:36PM -0800 Winston wrote:
>I need help .. How could i solve this samba error ?
>
>Please advice me . 
>
>error is below :
>
>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
>

I assume that you're doing it with smbstatus, am I right?

Only thing that comes to my mind is to check file/dir perms:

~ $ ls -l /var/lock/samba/ -a
razem 99
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 gru 19 13:54 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 gru 19 01:02 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          696 gru 19 10:35 brlock.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1200 gru 19 13:54 browse.dat
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        40960 gru 19 13:55 connections.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 gru 19 13:55 locking.tdb
-rw-------    1 root     root          696 gru 17 21:25 messages.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           20 gru 17 21:25 nmbd.pid
-rw-------    1 root     root         8192 gru 19 10:35 ntdrivers.tdb
-rw-------    1 root     root         8192 gru 19 10:35 printing.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 gru 19 13:53 sessionid.tdb
-rw-------    1 root     root         8192 gru 19 10:35 share_info.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           20 gru 17 21:25 smbd.pid
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 gru 17 21:25 unexpected.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1738 gru 19 13:54 wins.dat

What about that?

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Tomasz Orzechowski