[Samba] odd errors in log files: service name trucation

[Robert Stuart]

Hi,

I was doing a little look through one of our log files for a Terminal
server client and noticed a couple of odd error messages:
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) couldn't find service ta
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) couldn't find service app
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) couldn't find service revie

I found these odd because there are no connections of these names (of
course!).  Except that there are quite a few occurences of these types
of error messages and they refer to service names STARTING with these
characters.  eg ta would be a service called tae, app would be a service
called apps, revie would be a service called review.  I could believe
maybe one or two due to user typing errors etc, but this seems to be
systematic.

I guess I'm suggesting there might be a string trucation bug somewhere
there.  I've included a few lines around one of these errors that will
give more details:

[2002/08/21 13:09:05, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(690)
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) closed connection to service tlin
[2002/08/21 13:09:15, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(251)
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) couldn't find service ta
[2002/08/21 13:09:39, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(690)
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) closed connection to service netlogon
[2002/08/21 13:09:39, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(690)
  iceberg-ts5 (10.2.3.15) closed connection to service tall

This connection is likely to be created during logon (reconnection of
user mapped drives) as the netlogon share is closed just after.

Any ideas?

-- 
Robert Stuart
Systems Administrator
Ph: 61 7 3864 0364
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