Strange NIS lookups

[Broughton, Jim]

Hi,

We're using Samba 2.0.5a compiled for Solaris 2.5.1 with NT domain
controllers as authentication servers.

Everything works fine but we are seeing some strange NIS traffic. Samba
seems to be doing lookups in the password map for share names and machine
names with varying case. The global parameters "password level" and
"username level" have not been set so should be at their default value of 0.
We're connecting from NT clients with SP4 and above.

       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH ipc$ in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH IPC$ in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH Ipc$ in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH IPC$ in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH ipc$ in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH pc62673 in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH PC62673 in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH Ipc$ in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key

       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH zzzmail in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH ZZZMAIL in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH Zzzmail in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key
       homer -> seh          NIS C MATCH zzzmaiL in passwd.byname
         seh -> homer        NIS R MATCH No such key


Is this normal behaviour? Why does it need to do it? Can it be turned off?

Thanks for any help...

Cheers,
Jim
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