This was a PITA to fix. I finally came up with this solution. Don't know
why it works because none of this is referenced in the Makefile. I'm
guessing it's screwed up because I used the stock samba RPM on the Red
Hat 7.1 iso CD.
Put these two symbolic links in your /etc/samba directory.
codepages -> /usr/local/samba/lib/codepages
smb.conf -> /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
>On Monday, 30 Apr 2001 at 17:37:17 -0700 Trevor Benson wrote:
>============================================================>I just built
a new Redhat 7.1 server. I installed the RPM package from
>ftp.samba.org <ftp://ftp.samba.org> and after I run the smbd and nmbd
I
>still end up with this error below. I have checked this list, and gone
>through the Project Doc's and the FAQ's, I originally posed on the
samba
>group, and had no response there. I am not part of the technical mailing
>list, so if anyone has a suggestion please make sure to reply. If you would
>suggest I join this list as well, please mention it, I will do it right
>away.
>
> Nothing seems to reference the locking database not initializing. Has
>anyone else had this issue? On a fresh system with the RPM I wouldn't
>expect to have this much trouble, that's why I left the old 6.x server
as is
>and tried to move forward with a test box to see if I couldn't resolve
this.
>Any help or idea's would be appreciated. The log.smbd and nmbd have
NOTHING
>in them at this point. Im not really sure what to do.
>
>Samba version 2.2.0
>Service uid gid pid machine
>----------------------------------------------
>
>Failed to open byte range locking database
>ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
>Can't initialise locking module - exiting
>
