Samba ??

Hi.
How do I change the path that the smbstatus looks in?
1)The reason is, my book says to put the STATUS..LCK in /var/opt/samba/locks/STATUS..LCK.
2)Now linux wants it in /var/samba/locks/STATUS..LCK
3)I put it in the later, and it works, but for my own knowledge, how do I change the path that linux looks in??
Thanks……….Pat