samba - Aug 2002 - tdb failure when attempting to use Samba

I have successfully implemented Samba in the past but I am now perplexed by
a new installation which fails smbstatus with the message:
"tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/cache/samba/brlock.tdb:
No such file or directory
Failed to open byte range locking database
"tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
/var/cache/samba/locking.tdb:
No such file or directory
ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
Can't initialise module exiting"

The files brlock.tdb and locking.tdb are indeed absent but what creates them
in the first place? I have not had this problem previously and I am, as I
say, perplexed. For info I an running RH7.3 and have installed Samba from
the RPMS.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Andrew Hewson
HS Technologies Ltd

Hi,
> I have successfully implemented Samba in the past but I am now
> perplexed by a new installation which fails smbstatus with the
> message:
> "tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/brlock.tdb: No such file or directory
> Failed to open byte range locking database
> "tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /var/cache/samba/locking.tdb: No such file or directory
> ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
> Can't initialise module exiting"
>
> The files brlock.tdb and locking.tdb are indeed absent but what
> creates them in the first place? I have not had this problem
> previously and I am, as I say, perplexed. For info I an running RH7.3
> and have installed Samba from the RPMS.
The files are created when the first request arrives at the samba 
server. Just do a "smbclient -L localhost" and voila!

Personally I would also prefer samba to create all databases at startup 
just to avoid anoying and confusing error messages.

Regards,

Christopher

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