samba - Aug 2013 - Samba setup

Hi all.  I am a truly new to Samba so please bear with me while I ask a few
questions.  I am running a Pentium 366 Celeron, 128meg memory, Red Hat Linux
7.2, Linux 2.4.7-10, Samba 2.2.1a.  I am running this much older version as the
best book I have on Linux is "Ren Hat Linux 7.2 Bible" by Chris Negus.
It is the most complete book I have so in order to have my experiments with
Linux and Samba match the pictures ;-)), I opted to use the older version.

I installed Samba as per the instructions in the book.  Setting up the users,
editting the samba.conf file and using SWAT all seemed to go OK.  However, here
is what I got upon checking it:

[root at 4445 root]# smbstatus

Samba version 2.2.1a
Service            uid        gid        pid        machine
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Failed to open byte range locking database
ERROR: Failed to initialize locking database
Can't initialize locking module - exiting
[root at 4445 root]# ssmb

I have the Samba printer sharing working fine, I can print from my Linux machine
to my Windows printer fine.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I missed????

Thanks.

Bill

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Am 25.08.2013 18:12, schrieb Keller Racing:
> Hi all.  I am a truly new to Samba so please bear with me while I ask a
 > few questions.  I am running a Pentium 366 Celeron, 128meg memory,
 > Red Hat Linux 7.2, Linux 2.4.7-10, Samba 2.2.1a.  I am running this
 > much older version as the best book I have on Linux is "Ren Hat
 > Linux 7.2 Bible" by Chris Negus.  It is the most complete book I
 > have so in order to have my experiments with Linux and Samba
 > match the pictures ;-)), I opted to use the older version.

I really think you should skip this book, get a version of Samba that 
isn't 12 years old, and have a look to the thousands of good internet 
pages descriping almost everything around Samba. I'm sure, you will 
learn more and have less problems. :-)

And of course you would get much more help with recent versions, because 
nobody remembers what were bugs or specific things in such an old version.

Pick a recent version, give it a try (maybe you would require something 
newer than that old pentium :-)) and if you are having problems, let us 
know what you plan to do and what went wrong, and we surely will find a 
way to get it work here on the list. :-)




> [root at 4445 root]# smbstatus
>
> Samba version 2.2.1a
> Service            uid        gid        pid        machine
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Failed to open byte range locking database
> ERROR: Failed to initialize locking database
> Can't initialize locking module - exiting
Assumed that this was the same 12 years ago: Run

# testparm -vs | grep "lock directory"

and have a look, where "lock directory" points too. Then check if this
directory is existing. The permissions should be 755 and owner root:root.

You can try stopping Samba, remove the "locking.tdb" (make a copy 
before) and start Samba again. It will be recreated.




Regards,
Marc