Weird Log entries

[James W. Beauchamp]

Jonathan:
I looked and /var/log/messages is there as well as log.nmb and log.smb.

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "JONATHAN W MINER" <Jonathan.W.Miner at lmco.com>
To: "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Weird Log entries


> James -
>
> My first guess would be that you don't have one of the log files
> defined, and the default is to log to the console...
>
> "James W. Beauchamp" wrote:
> >
> > Hi all:
> > I have RH Linux 6.2 running samba 2.0.7 and acting as a domain
controller
> > for winnt and MS95/98 users (10 total).
> >
> > I have noticed that when my console sits inactive at the login prompt
for
> > awhile (I don't know how long - I haven't tried to time it) I get the
> > following messages sort of written over top of the login prompt:
> >
> > smb_get_length: recv error=5
> > smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
> > smb_retry: new PID=process number here, generation=5
> >
> > In trying to find out what this is I have the following things repeated
in
> > my log.smb and log.nmb
> >
> > Gethostbyaddr failed for x.x.x.x (this repeats for all ip's assigned)
> >
> > in log.nmb
> > process_logon_packet: Logon from x.x.x.x code=0x7
> > where x.x.x.x is an NT4 workstation, but it appears for all ip's.
> >
> > If it helps, all ip's are assigned by DHCP
> >
> > In spite of this, all seems to work o.k.  Any ideas what this could be?
I
> > know it can't be right, but I am stumped.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > James
> >
> > "If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes"
>
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