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Subject: Re: Samba issues
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sounds to me as if you don't have the right permissions set for the lock
directory, or the wrong owner.

It sounds like you are relatively close... But it's hard to say.


mike wrote:

> I am having trouble getting Samba working.
> I am running 4.1.1 stable and trying to get
> samba working with 98. I got the latest version of Samba witch I
> believe is 2.0.7 and
> edited the config file. I get the following error when running
> smbstatus
>
> ****
>
> frogger# smbstatus
> Couldn't open status file /var/spool/lock/STATUS..LCK
> frogger#
>
> *****
>
> also when I try and run samba by doing a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh
>
> . It wont let me do it unless I am root and it does change the prompt
> from frogger to Sambafrogger. So I dont know if I am close or not to
>
> get it working.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike F.


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