I had the same problem six months ago. Have you changed your hostname after the last time you restarted Samba?
I fixed it by modifying the localhost line in /etc/hosts to look like this: [saul@server]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 server.etiresinstallers.com server localhost Hope this helps. On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 06:21, Madhvi Nundalalee wrote: > Hello > > I have configured Samba on RH7.1 using SWAT and got the following error when I typed >"smbstatus" at the prompt > > " Couldn't open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK" > > the nmbd daemon could not be started when the server was rebooted. > > Can anyone help ? > > > Cheers > madhvi _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
