I have previously played with Samba before and have hit a few snags in the past. Now I'm feeling a bit retarded because you'd figure that I'd learn from these experiences and stop posting to such lists/groups. Alas.. no.. :) I have recently freshly installed RH 7.2 on a soon-to-be production internal server. I successfully installed it with Samba support to handle the internal file traffic. The included version with RH7.2 is 2.2.1a, had it up and it ran perfectly, no problems. I then decided to go with the latest version 2.2.2 from rpmfind.net and upgrade the current install. I didn't want to break a good thing while it was running :). At that point, seemingly because they were rawhide packages (mostly unstable/untested) my Samba install broke. You could see the machine on the net, but could no longer browse the shares. The only errror I've received to date follows and it's created by smbstatus: Samba version 2.2.2 Service uid gid pid machine ---------------------------------------------- Failed to open byte range locking database ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database Can't initialise locking module - exiting Kind of frustrated, I got brave and decided to snatch the source, compile and make sure that all the settings those guys at Red-Hat set Samba up with were optimal :). I successfully compiled 2.2.2 and it started up fine. Though experiencing the same problem with smbstatus. So I've searched high and low about the nature of these errors and started playing with the samba locking dirs. I explicitly set: lock directory = /var/lock/samba And it would start fine, the machine was now viewable from a workstation, though you couldn't browse the shares still. After much mulling, and massaging I decided to cut my losses and revert back to the original install that RH7.2 set me up with. I removed the source based install and set it up from the RPMS provided on the discs (2.2.1a). Now I'm still experiencing the same problem and well... I'm kind of stumped, I can't assume that it's a permisssions issue since I've deleted everything in the /var/lock/samba dir, and restarted samba, the files in the directory were successfully re-created. Somewhere my config is messed up, though I have no idea where to look. I'm assuming that the 2.2.2 rawhide rpms had installed some kind of file/setting that is now givin' me bad vibes :). I'd certainly appreciate any input from anyone on this matter. Dan Serban