samba question

[Herb Lewis]

Ihab Khoury wrote:
> 
> I am trouble shooting this error and I thought I'd
> ask to see if this error have been seen before.
> version 1.9.18
> 
> Mar 20 14:15:54 cc7008 smbd[7218]:   Couldn't set
> effective gid to -2 currently set to (real=0,eff=0)
> Mar 20 14:15:54 cc7008 smbd[7218]: [2001/03/20
> 14:15:54, 0] smbd/service.c:(425)
> Mar 20 14:15:54 cc7008 smbd[7218]:   Can't become
> connected user!

You really shoudl upgrade to the latest version.

Samba does not allow a user with a negative UID. Some versions of UNIX
set the nobody user to -2 UID and you probably have samba set to use
nobody as the guest user.

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