There was quite a large discussion on this on the samba-technical group
at samba.org

I would peruse the archives there to find out more.

Doug Egan

Arto Huusko wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Could someone shed some light on Samba version 2.2's locking.tdb
> file living in /var/run/samba. It just managed to fill my /,
> having the size of about 50Mb. Is this normal, or...
>
> I have a Win2k box using the samba server; could that have something
> to do with things?
>
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