Hi List , I had sent this mail earlier too ! But I am still not able to fix this problem ! Could anyone please guide me towards the solution of this problem ? Thanks, Kamlesh. Hi List , I was installing new SAMBA 2.2.2 on my Red Hat 6.2 linux box . The installation went on smoothly. When I ran the smbstatus command it gave me following error message : /*-----------------------------------------------------------*/ 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 /*------------------------------------------------------------*/ I have specified lock directroy in smb.conf file as follows : lock diretory = /var/lock/samba And this directory is present there with 755 permissions. I am not able to figure out what exactly is going wrong ? Could anyone please help me ? Thanks in advance , Kamlesh. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -------------------------------------------------------