Samba looking up hostnames in passwd NIS map??

[Jesse Asher]

Robert Dahlem wrote:

> Jesse,
>
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 08:56:43 -0500, Jesse Asher wrote:
>
> >I've looked through the archives for this list and couldn't find
> >mention of a strange behavior I'm seeing.
> >
> >I've got a Win98 system that is trying to map a share from my Samba
> >server running Solaris 7 and Samba 2.0.7.
> >
> >When I  map the network drive (the share is /tmp on the server),
> >Samba does attempt to contact the NIS server (the nsswitch.conf file
> >has "hosts:  files nis"), but it  looks up the hostname of the Win98
> >box i(jwasher-mobl) n the passwd NIS map!  As you can see below, it
> >makes various NIS calls and then finally queries my real loginid
> >(jwasher) and quits.
>
> [...]
>
> >Why is it doing this?  This is very inefficient.  If it does this for
> >every connection, that seems like a huge waste.  Any ideas on why
> >this would be happening?

I have spent considerable amount of time reading the man page.  Since my
setting is actually "security = USER", I don't think this is the problem.

>
>
> You might try to spend some time reading the man page for smb.conf.
> Under "security = share" you will find a part beginning with:
>
>     As clients are not required to send a username to the server in
>     share level security, smbd uses several techniques to determine
>     the correct UNIX user to use on behalf of the client.
>
>     A list of possible UNIX usernames to match with the given client
>     password is constructed using the following methods :
>
> And (a little later)
>
>     The NetBIOS name of the client is added to the list as a potential
>     username.
>
> I bet your problem is "security = share".
>
> Reagrds,
>         Robert
>
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