samba not logging windows user names

Ronald Derksen Ronald_Derksen at nl.compuware.com
Tue Nov 23 09:15:40 GMT 1999


Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> At 07:26 PM 11/22/1999 +1100, Ronald Derksen wrote:
> >Hi,
> [clip]
> >I also tried logging to a file which contains '%U' but this give me very
> >often the 'guest' name in the logfile while guest access is denied.
> [clip]
> >Ronald Derksen
> 
> Ronald -- the listing of "guest" as %U is not at all my experience. My
> experience is %U is the username on the windows box or the -U arg of
> smbclient, irrespective of any guesting issues. Either I've spaced out or
> you've discovered a very interesting anomoly. Can you reproduce this
> behavior with a tiny smb.conf?

Yes

root at lycosa # cat ../lib/smb.conf
[GLOBAL]
        netbios name    = cwnl-lycosa
        workgroup = CWNL-LAB
        guest account = pcguest
        log file = /usr/local/samba/log/log.%U
        debug level = 1
        encrypt passwords = yes
        password server = cweu-users-pdc
        security = server
        username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/username.map
        lock directory = /usr/local/samba/locks
	dead time = 1

[temp]
        path = /tmp
        guest ok = no
        valid users = ronaldd
        force user = test1
root at lycosa # ls -l /usr/local/samba/log
total 8
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system         0 Mar 14 22:21 log.
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system         0 Mar 14 22:21 log.cwnl-ronaldd
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       116 Mar 14 22:21 log.pcguest
root at lycosa # cat /usr/local/samba/log/log.pcguest
2000/03/14 22:21:43 cwnl-c1683 (172.16.27.85) connect to service temp as
user test1 (uid=3310,gid=1430) (pid 28476)
root at lycosa # 

The "connect to service" line only appears in the logfile "log.pcguest".
This happens when connect via "START -> RUN -> open: \\cwnl-lycosa" and
select share temp ( and browse network neigborhood ). This is the
behaviour of most of our users because there are too many shares that
are not always needed. When I do a "map network drive" the "connect to
service" line only appears in the logfile "log.cwnl-ronaldd".

Some interesting note I just found out: The "closed connection to
service" line comes in the file "log.cwnl-ronaldd" when browsing.


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