[PLUG] Samba newbie smbstatus problem

[Rick Konold]

On Monday 08 April 2002 09:38, you hammered the keyboard to write:
> > > Failed to open byte range locking database
> > > ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> > > Can't initialise locking module - exiting
> >
> > I took a look at the smbstatus command, and it
> > appears to only tell you what
> > ACTIVE connections you have.  If you are not
> > connected via smbclient to some
> > directory on the other end, it will not be doing any
> > file locking, and will
> > not report any active user.  This may explain your
> > error if you are just
> > checking smbstatus without any active client
> > connected.
>
> Mine reports like so when I have no active
> connections:
>
> Samba version 2.2.3a
> Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> No locked files
>
>
> So whatever error that is, it isn't about a lack a
> clients :)

Odd, when I do smbstatus on my Workstation running RH7.2 with samba 2.2.1a I 
get the same as you show above.  When I do it on my Server running RH6.2 with 
samba 2.0.6-9, I get "couldn't open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK". 
 I checked /var/lock/samba and there is no such file there.  Then I tried to 
compare /var/lock/samba on the RH7.2 workstation, and there is no such 
directory at all, the files are in different locations there.  I don't know 
if this means different versions do things differently, or if there may be a 
problem with the setup on my server.  [are they both saying there are no 
locked files in a different way?]   Functionally they both work fine, and 
have for at least a year now.   I use them both to browse and copy files with 
a W98 box on the network.  Of course on a single user network, a lack of file 
locking may not cause problems.  I will compare the smb.conf files later to 
see if there are any diff's.  Thanks for pointing that out.
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Rick Konold ~~ Linux Advocate
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