Why is Win98 looking for user "nobody"?

Steve Snyder swsnyder at home.com
Tue Sep 18 08:43:09 GMT 2001


Using Samba v2.0.10 on a RedHat v7.1 box, I see that the Win98 clients on 
our network are making sporatic requests for user "nobody" (as shown 
below).  Anyone know what's going on here?

My network has both Linux and Win98 clients, but only the Win98 clients are 
showing this behavior.  Both the Linux and Win98 clients access the same 
shared drives, but only the Win98 clients use shared printers.

Also, the requests are bursty.  The log entries below are the entire log 
file for this week and are copied on Tuesday morning.  So after about 
48hours of silence (logs are rotated on Sunday) all of a sudden this client 
(Win98 SE + all MS updates) is seeking user "nobody".   Hmm.

Note that I actually do *not* have "nobody" defined in my smb_passwd file, 
so the messages are strictly accurate.  Note also that I have "guest ok = 
yes" on a couple of shares, though these log entries are from machines with 
actual users, not guests, logged in.

Any thoughts on this?  Thanks.

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[2001/09/18 07:17:47, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:18:19, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:18:37, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:18:50, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:19:10, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:19:32, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:19:50, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:20:07, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:20:19, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:20:41, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:21:00, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:21:18, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:21:41, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:22:22, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:22:39, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:22:46, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:23:03, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:23:21, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:23:32, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:23:50, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2001/09/18 07:24:04, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.




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