Hello all - I am a severe newbe when it comes to LINUX or SAMBA but I have attempted to get SAMBA running on a RED HAT 9.0 box that I have just brought up on my home network. It will be my dedicated APACHE server and right now I am trying to get SAMBA running so I can connect to the Windows server and clients that exsist on the network. I have had to manually edit the smb.conf file as SWAT is not a compiled part of this version of SAMBA. After going through the manual editing process as explained in several technical references I have the following error when I checked the status of my smb service " [chris@Gandolph chris]$ smbstatus Samba version 2.2.7a 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 you help me Obewan Kenobe?