Trouble authenticating with OfficeJet CIFS client

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jul 20 00:46:06 GMT 2007


On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:33:29PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> The [v]uid in the SMB header is not related to real user IDs as assigned by
> the OS.  It is a token allocated by the server and associated with a login
> instance.  There may be several valid authentications, all with different
> [v]uid's assigned, within the same session.

Don't teach your grandfather to suck eggs. I *invented* the term vuid.


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