I am still pretty new to linux, anb so far im loving it. I had samba up and running under mandrake 8.2 it wasnt perfect but it worked. sence then i have switched to RH 7.3 I like RH alot and I would like to keep it but I have been unable to get samba working I am on a large network and there are quite a few windows shares that i would like to be able to access but im having some trouble with it. when I run smbstatus I get the following message

Samba version 2.2.3a
Service uid gid pid machine
----------------------------------------------

tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/cache/samba/brlock.tdb: No su ch 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 s uch file or directory
ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
Can't initialise locking module - exiting

I am hoping to be able to get a graphical frontend like xSMBrowser working as well if anyone can help or point me in the write direction I would really apreciate it.

check permissions on that dir and files (chmod) and owner

+ be carefull when you set samba as master browser to set chmod -R 755 to /var/log/samba
This is where the browse list is kept (other computers would not see network neighbourhood is no access to this dir)

regards

Hi,

How did you solve this error ?

Regards,
Florian

Im having the EXACT same problem, CAN ANYONE PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ HELP??????????????????

micheal

I don't know how far you've gotten with your research but, I've found that the following DOES NOT WORK:

I changed the following values as sugested and got negative results.

[root@humm]# ls -al /var/cache/samba/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 22 21:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 24 19:35 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 22 21:47 brlock.tbd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 Sep 22 21:59 browse.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8192 Sep 22 21:59 connections.tdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 22 21:47 locking.tbd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 696 Sep 22 21:59 messages.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 22 21:59 nmbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 22 21:59 smbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 304 Sep 22 21:59 wins.dat


Restated the after the changes "Service SMB restart" and as you can see aaaa?

Samba version 2.2.3a
Service uid gid pid machine
----------------------------------------------

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 locking module - exiting

To make a long story short; I also, thinking that the problem might be in the build, rebuilt it with the source code several different times with debug and still didn't get any useable insight...

Rather perplexing...

Good luck and I will revisite if I get any further with this.

The solution to the following problems:

Failed to open byte range locking database
/usr/local/samba/var/locks/connections.tdb not initialized
ERROR: Failed to initialise locking database
Can't initialise locking module - exiting

Any ONE or more of these errors can be caused by missing LOCK files.

Lock files are located based on you smb.conf file: lock directory
or your distro has a place:

Mandrake: /var/cache/samba/
Rhat: /var/cache/samba/
other I've heard of: /var/lock/samba/

I had this problem when upgrading from samba 2.2.6 to 2.2.7. No big deal. Went to another server and grabbed the missing lock files.

Here's a link of mine backed up:
http://smp.byteharmony.com/~happy/ft...d/locks.tar.gz

unzip the file in a temp dir and use the following command to copy the files missing to your locks dir:
(assuming /var/cache/samba is your locks dir)
(assuming your in the directory where you unziped the files tar -zxf locks.tar.gz)
cp locks/* /var/cache/samba
Say: n
to every question where it asks you if you want to over write your files. If you do want to overwrite them, be my guest, I didn't test that .

1st donation after taking so much ,
BK

I've just had the same problem on a fresh install of Knoppix 3.1 (2002-12-12beta) which is Debian based, with samba 2.2.3a-6....

i dnld'd your locks.tar.gz file and unzipped/tarred, copied over brlock.tdb and locking.tdb to /var/run/samba ...
and viola! smbstatus works again. =) reports "No locked files" thanks a ton!

Hi all,
I copied also brlock.tbd and locking.tbd and smbstatus don't reported the errors any more but the day after when I restart my server I had again the same problem.
Any ideas?

Thank you very much to every body,

Jonathan Mormon

smbclient -NL localhost

Work fine.

Cheers.