From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 10:44:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obelix.rby.hk-r.se (obelix.rby.hk-r.se [194.47.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DDB37B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helios.kna.hk-r.se (helios [194.47.153.5]) by obelix.rby.hk-r.se (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8IHid725431; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:44:39 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (t98pth@localhost) by helios.kna.hk-r.se (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8IHiNY18546; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:44:24 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:44:23 +0200 (MEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4r_Thoren?= To: Christopher Harrer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba Installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello All, >=20 > I'm having trouble getting Samba working. I've read the How-To and FAQ o= n > the Samba site. My current question is when I do a "smbstatus", I get th= e > following response: >=20 > "Couldn't open status file /var/spool/lock/STATUS..LCK" >=20 > The file does not exist. When I originally installed SAMBA it was on a U= P > kernel. I've since rebuilt the kernel and added SMP support, could this = be > the problem? >=20 > Any help would be most appreciated. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Chris >=20 It=B4s a known "problem": ->touch /var/spool/lock/STATUS..LCK=20 should do it :) Or..if someonse connects to your samba share the file is created. /P=E4r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message