Samba

[Zac Cogswell]

This might not be the best answer, but i just 'touch'ed the file, and it 
started up normally, and I haven't had any problems since.

touch /var/lock/samba/STATUS.LCK




At 12:17 AM 3/15/00 -0500, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
>I'm having a problem with Samba..whenever I try to start smbd or nmbd
>with SWAT, I get the following error
>
>    Couldn't open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK
>
>I looked, and the reason it couldn't open it is because it doesn't exist,
>but what kind of file should be there? I don't understand what locks do.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>-Mike
>
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