[Samba] RE: strange connection attempts in log files

[Jason Barker]

Oops. Meant to say "minus ONE letter".
And, the service's full name is "utils", but the client tries to connect to
"util". The connection is sucessful eventually, after the client starts
using the right name.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jason Barker 
> Sent:	Friday, March 22, 2002 2:25 PM
> To:	'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject:	strange connection attempts in log files
> 
> For quite some time I have seen many connection attempts in log files that
> list the share name minus on letter, example:
> 
> [2002/03/13 10:56:45, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
>   intrepid (172.16.130.88) couldn't find service util
> 
> This was a connection attempt from my computer to the Samba server,
> through Windows Explorer, and I did not type the path in manually, rather
> I double clicked on the share in the list of shares on the server.
> For each time it does it, it repeats in the log many times, for example,
> the connection attempt above will have a time of 10:56:45, another at
> 10:56:52, two at 10:56:53, etc.
> 
> Is this something Windows is doing, or is it samba? Any ideas?
> It is not a big problem, it just makes really messy log files!