Why is Win98 looking for user "nobody"?

[Chris Tooley]

Read the documentation about the guest account.  This is by default
nobody I believe.  Netlogon is reading the configuration as "nobody" is
the guest user and it can't find a valid user by that name.  I remember
something about guest being used for something during login but can't
remember the details.

Chris

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:43, Steve Snyder wrote:
> Below is a transcript of a successful user login (with debug level = 1).  
> I'd like to ask a question regarding the netlogon notations below.  
> 
> First, some background.  My v2.2.2 Samba server is running on a RedHat 
> Linux v7.2 (with kernel v2.4.14).  The client logon below is from a Win98SE 
> box.  
> 
> The user below, "nancy", is mapping shares in 2 passes.  In the first pass 
> a number of shares are mapped by a netlogon script when logging into the 
> network.  In the second pass, the share that nancy has elected to map, 
> "clipart", is auto-connected by Win98.  So far so good.  
> 
> Now what the heck is that business between the 2 sets of connections?  The 
> netlogon is connected to, the user "nobody" is looked for 3 times, then the 
> netlogon share is closed.  Huh?  
> 
> Although user "nobody" exists in Linux, it does not exist in smbpasswd.  I 
> have no references to this user in either smb.conf or in the logon script.  
> 
> What is causing this sequence of actions and how do I stop it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> [2001/11/20 14:10:19, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service netlogon as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:22, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service lj4500 as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:22, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service dj1120 as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:22, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service public as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:22, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service shared as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:22, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service nancy as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:23, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(648)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) closed connection to service netlogon
> [2001/11/20 14:10:23, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service netlogon as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
> [2001/11/20 14:10:44, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(546)
>   Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.
> [2001/11/20 14:10:44, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(546)
>   Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.
> [2001/11/20 14:10:44, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(546)
>   Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.
> [2001/11/20 14:12:30, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(648)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) closed connection to service netlogon
> [2001/11/20 14:21:46, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(610)
>   venus (192.168.0.3) connect to service clipart as user nancy (uid=501, 
> gid=100) (pid 30907)
>  
> 
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