[Samba] Samba 2.2.3a on HP-UX 10.20

[Andrew Bartlett]

Roman Vorel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when I am connecting to samba, openingor saving a MS Word document, nearly
> every time there is a core-file.
> In the log-file there I found following message:
> [2002/08/12 15:13:44, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(111)
>   Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,-24) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0)
> [2002/08/12 15:13:44, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1064)
>   PANIC: failed to set gid
> 
> What does it mean?

The problem is that your 'guest account', which is 'nobody' by default
has a negitive uid/gid.  Samba doesn't like that.  The usual solution is
to create a new account like 'smbnull' (disabled etc), and set it as the
'guest account' in your smb.conf.

Andrew Bartlett

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