Samba locked?

[Regan_Nayve <regan nayve ieee org>]

Greeting,

After I restart the smb while a user is uploading a file
my linux(samba) box couldn't be accessed then.I've tried 
checking the samba file by rpm and checking smb.conf but 
nothing seemed wrong.TCP/IP is working well(ping/telnet) 
and I've tried rebooting the box but got the same result.

When I ran smbstatus -d there was a line that goes 
"Opened status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK."
Thus this mean that samba is locked?

System config.:
RedHat 5.2,Samba-1.9.18p10-3,64MB RAM,8GB SCSI(AHA-2940),
NE-2000 compatible,

Any hint or suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regan Nayve
regan nayve ieee org