Can't access my samba server from Windows

Herb Lewis herb at chomps.engr.sgi.com
Mon Jan 24 13:45:06 GMT 2000


Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:13:13 +1100, hai scritto:
> 
> >   I have installed samba 2.0.6 under HP-UX 10.20.
> >   [2000/01/24 16:41:45, 0] smbd/uid.c:(67)
> >     Couldn't set effective uid to -2. Currently set to (real=0,eff=0).
> >   Error was I
> >   nvalid argument
> 
> Try looking here:
> http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/samba-patches/accepted?id=4;user=guest
> 
> --
> giulioo at pobox.com

Samba does not like UID's with negative numbers. You might also try
changing your guest user (which I assume has UID of -2) to something
else.

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