[PLUG] Samba newbie smbstatus problem

Rick Konold cccs at teleport.com
Sun Apr 7 05:38:27 UTC 2002


On Saturday 06 April 2002 21:31, you hammered the keyboard to write:
> On Saturday 06 April 2002 20:08, you hammered the keyboard to write:
> > I finally bought the "Samba for Dummies" book today as the resources on
> > the web assume I have a degree in networking (in which case I wouldn't
> > need the them -c22).  So finally I am geting somewhere...well...
> >
> > Samba appears to my newbie understanding to be up and running now, but if
> > I type " smbstatus "  it says:
>
> It has been a while since I set up Samba, but I think you have to type smbd
> and nmbd at the command line to start Samba.  You may have to use
> /sbin/smbd and /sbin/nmbd if it is not in your path.  If you have not added
> it to your init scripts to start automatically, you will have to do it each
> time you boot the machine.

Oops, just as I sent that I remembered it is /usr/sbin/smbd and nmbd.  And I 
think you have to be the root user.

>
> > Failed to open byte range locking database
> > ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> > Can't initialise locking module - exiting
> >
> > Now what to I do?
>
> I don't know what that error is, I have never seen it.  You might try it on
> google.com to see if it gives you any answers
>
> > Also, is there any way to cut and paste text from the shell window to
> > knode or a word processor so I don't have to type all my error messages?
>
> With many terminals you just highlight the text with your left mouse
> button, then go to an editor and click with the third button if you have
> one, or with both the left and right buttons simultaneously.  that should
> paste the text into an editor.
>
> > Thanks
> > Robert
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