Check to see if you have a netlogon directory and the correct path is set in the smb.conf file. This could be the problem with the message: No such file or directory. Bill Antonia -----Original Message----- From: richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk <richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk> To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Date: 01 December 2000 12:16 Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Starting Samba I've got a bit of time to play with my Linux box again. I cant even get Samba started. According to usingsamba.pdf I need to start two daemons. # /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D # /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D I installed Samba from Yast, SuSE 6.3 but these commands fail with the message: No such file or directory. Also, when I run smbstatus I get an error: Couldnt open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK Could anyone advise? regards Richard richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk