Hey... I had that happen to me. If memory serves me correctly I had to do a
'chmod u+rwx testparm' followed by a 'chmod go+r-w+x testparm'. An 'ls'
afterwards gave me the following display:

 -rwxr-xr-x   1 MANAGER.SYS       SAMBA     370432 Jun 21 14:27 testparm

regards,
Robert W.Mills (Windsong Services)

-----Original Message-----
From: Beghein Johan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: testparm utility


Hello,

I try to start samba on my system, I changed the smb.conf file, and when I
try the testparm utility from the posix shell, i get the folowing error:

1-PUB :sh
CWD is "/SAMBA/PUB".
########################################################################

               MPE/iX Shell and Utilities (A.50.02)
    COPYRIGHT (c) Hewlett-Packard Company 1992, All Rights Reserved.

########################################################################


shell/iX> testparm /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf

**** EXEC FUNCTION FAILED; subsys =517; info = 48
ABORT: /SAMBA/PUB/bin/testparm
NM SYS   a.00ac74a0 dbg_abort_trace+$24
NM UNKN  3b0.001f8f9c
NM UNKN  c90.0004ac0c
[1] + Done(134) testparm /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
  26214979      Abort   testparm
shell/iX>

Any idea ?

Thanks.

Beghein Johan.