Why is Win98 looking for user "nobody"?

[Steve Snyder]

After posting my original message I noticed that a Win2K client is polling 
the Samba server every 30 minutes.  For each poll, this sequence is logged:

[2001/11/20 14:23:42, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(546)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.
[2001/11/20 14:23:42, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(546)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.
[2001/11/20 14:23:42, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(546)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in passdb.

I assume that the repeated failures increase the CPU load on the server.  
What will satisfy these requests (that is, reduce 3 failed calls to 1 
successful one)?  Adding "nobody" and an smbuser?  Changing the guest 
account to one other than "nobody"

Thanks.


On Tuesday 20 November 2001 02:50 pm, Chris Tooley wrote:
> 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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