UK Jaiswal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I type "smbstatus",
> I get :
> Couldn't open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK
>
> What does it mean and what is the significance of the "/var/lock/"
> directory.
>
Are you doing this as root? Always the first thing I look at if I get
messages of this nature.
Check to see if the file exists also.
/var/lock is used by several programs to place "lock" files to let
processes know what is running or what might have a lock on a particular
resource. It might be that the samba suite is using the existance of this
file to know if the thing is even running. I am not that familier with
it. For us samba just runs and runs. I never have to putz with it since
getting it configured.
Hope this helps.
Bret
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