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

[Gerald Drouillard]

>
>
> I think this is normal if the user cannot be authenticated.  I saw this
> when I was trying to get ldap to work.  I don't know if it shows this
> when the user cannot be found or when the password is wrong....i would
> guess when the user cannot be found......

No in my case.  There was no ldap in this install.  We had switch a novell
network over to linux/samba on a weekend with 50+ users/machines.  Of course
during the weekend testing everyone on the team was a member of adm and
everything ran smooth as silk.  Then the first non-adm member came in on
Monday morning.  We spent a lot of time tracking down why we could log on
and not others.  Of course we played with permissions on folders and the
settings in the conf file, but the only answer we found was to add everyone
to adm.

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>
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:27, Gerald Drouillard wrote:
> > 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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