[Samba] Some users can't log in -- server shows username as " nobody"

[David Brodbeck]

The thing is, since I'm using security=server I don't have an smbpasswd
file.  I'd only need to add users to smbpasswd if I wanted to authenticate
them with Samba instead of against the server, right?  I'm trying to avoid
having to maintain two sets of passwords.

If I'm misunderstanding something, let me know.  I don't have a lot of
experience with security=server mode.

-----Original Message-----
From: pilsl at goldfisch.at [mailto:pilsl at goldfisch.at]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:08 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Some users can't log in -- server shows username as
"nobody"


I just had the very same problem about 10 minutes ago. I couldnt logon
with a certain username even if I tried 10 times and checked the
user/pass very carefully.

Finally the following helped : remove the username from the
smbpasswd-file (just reapplying smbpasswd for this user was not
sufficient), add the user with smbpasswd and stop/start samba.

hope this helps for you too.

peter





On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:21:14PM -0600, Tony Ricker wrote:
> Dave,
> 	I have had this issue and found that samba uses the nobody account
if
> the user fails to authenticate. Basically, the user is failing to log in
> so it tries the nobody account. Make sure that the user has a legitimate
> account and try smbclient to test this. I hope this helps or at least
> starts a dialogue if I am wrong.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony
> 
> David Brodbeck wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, this is a recurring problem that really has me frustrated.
> > 
> > I have a samba server that's using security=server.  There are four
people
> > who use it.  It works fine for three of them, but the fourth one gets
> > endlessly prompted for his password and is never allowed to log in.  All
are
> > from NT 4.0 clients.
> > 
> > What's really puzzling is that when I look at the log at debug level 2,
I
> > get the following when he tries to log in:
> > 
> > "Invalid username/password for game-devel [nobody]"
> > 
> > No matter what he puts in the "user" field of the password dialog, Samba
is
> > trying to log him in as nobody!  What's going on?
> > 
> > ----------
> > 
> > David Brodbeck, System Administrator
> > InterClean Equipment, Inc.
> > Ann Arbor, Michigan
> > davidb at mail.interclean.com
> > (734) 975-2967 x221
> > 
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