samba - Nov 2002 - Bytle Locking

I am running RH8 with Samba 2.2.6.  I am attempting to
connect a Win2k box to my Linux box.  I "see" Linux in
Network Neighborhood, I can ping the Win2k BIOS name,
and I can ping the Linux box BIOS name.  However When
I click on accessing linux I get resource not
available.  And when I run smbstatus I get the
following:

Samba version 2.2.6
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------

Failed to open byte range locking database
ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
Can't initialise locking module - exiting


Can someone help me PLEEEEZZ!!!!!  I have been workin
on this for well over a week.

Thx in advance.

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-----[ coryawynn@yahoo.com wrote on 11/14/2002 11:02 AM -0800 ]-----
> Failed to open byte range locking database
> ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> Can't initialise locking module - exiting
Try running 'smbclient -L localhost'

This has helped me in the past. It seems to initialize the databases that 
smbstatus looks at.
> However When
> I click on accessing linux I get resource not
> available.
>From win2k does 'net view \\linux' show you anything? That should
list the
available shares. If not, then it would seem that name resolution is the 
problem. Try 'net view ip.of.linux' If samba is happy, that should show
you
the shares.

Also, make sure that the RH8 does not have the firewalling enabled. As root 
'service iptables stop' should turn it off. Then try the access from the
w2k box. If that works, then you will need to create firewall rules for 
samba traffic. Much has been posted about that in the past.

     --Ben--

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Ben Griffith
bgriffit@email.unc.edu
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