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

[Gerald Drouillard]

I had to work around this by adding all users to the group "adm".  The
machine was Mandrake 8.2b2 and Samba 2.2.3a.
Regards
-------------------------
Gerald Drouillard
Owner and Consultant
Drouillard & Associates
http://www.Drouillard.ca


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of David Brodbeck
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: 'samba at samba.org'
> Subject: [Samba] Some users can't log in -- server shows username as
> "nobody"
>
>
> 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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