samba 2.2.2

[Joyce Mazur]

I just installed the binaries for subject
software. I connect to my shares just fine
but when I run smbstatus (even at root level)
I get connections.tdb not initialized.

I was previously running 2.0.7 with no problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Joyce Mazur
USACECOM SMC

[harry d brown jr]

Does the connections.tdb file exist? Also, is samba running as root?

live free or die
harry

[Joyce Mazur]

Harry,
Samba is running,well I can print and
file share. Can't find the connections.tdb
file. This was a binary package, although not
depoted, from samba.org.

I am running HP-UX 10.20.

Joyce

[harry d brown jr]

It should be somewhere like this:

/usr/local/samba/var/locks/connections.tdb


live free or die
harry

[Joyce Mazur]

Harry,
File does not exist. Apears it was
not a part of the binary download.

Thanks

Joyce

[Mike Hassell]

Joyce,

The connections.tdb file keeps track of connected users and other stats that 'smbstatus' uses as it's source. This file shoulid be created when your samba daemons startup (smbd/nmbd). There have been problems with previous releases of samba where this file will become very large on HP-UX, but I haven't seen your particular problem before.

I would recommend shutting down your samba daemons and making a configuration change to smb.conf like the following:

[global]
log level = 3

This will log additional information to your default samba logs to help you troubleshoot the problem. I imagine that when using this level of logging that it would state why it had problems creating this file during startup. Also make sure the directory itself is created, which I think on HP-UX is:

/usr/local/samba/var/locks

Also checkout the docs on smb.conf and see what else may be preventing you from creating this file, the following discusses log levels:

http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#LOGLEVEL

Hope that helps.

-Mike

[Joyce Mazur]

Hi Harry,

Checked the logging level, was already
at 3. This is my test maching.

Logs showed no evidence of complaining
about connections.tdb.

Never had a problem with any of the
previous releases. Glad I didn't apply
the upgrade to all of my systems.

Really appreciate your help.

Thanks
Joyce

[Isis Helpdesk]

Hi Joyce,

The same message was my deal as well when I tried to install Samba 2.2.2 on a 10.20 machine (on 11.11: no problem). When I checked the included README.hpux file(in /opt/samba), I noticed that some /var/opt/... directories had been used at compile time (in CFLAGS) that were missing on our system. After creating them manually (and moving directory "using_samba" to /opt/samba/doc), everything was fine. Maybe this helps you out as well.

H.T.H.

[Kevin Wright]

I had the same problem on 10.20 before. Just creating the /var/opt/samba/locks dir fixed the problem.