Ree: help (with clients changing to uid -2)

[David Collier-Brown]

Basso Viviana wrote:
| The smbd.log gives me these two messages for every refused
| connection
| [2000/11/03 13:17:25, 0] smbd/uid.c:(104)
|        Couldn't set effective gid to -2 currently set to
(real=0,eff=0)
|  [2000/11/03 13:17:25, 0] smbd/service.c:(425)
|        Can't become connected user!

	The gid of -2 looks suspicious: what account in
	/etc/passwd does this correspond to?

	Important: make sure "map to guest" is set to never
	especially if your guest account has a gid of -2: you
	may be getting people mis-maped somehow...

--dave  
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