[Samba] RE: strange connection attempts in log files

[Jason Barker]

Nope. "utils" is the name of the share, there is no "util" share,
misconfigured or not.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Whitehead [mailto:bwhitehd at earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:45 PM
To: Jason Barker
Subject: Re: [Samba] RE: strange connection attempts in log files


Do you have a share called 'util' that is not completely configured?
(incorrect path, wrong permissions, ...)

--
Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Barker" <jbarker at edulog.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: [Samba] RE: strange connection attempts in log files


> 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!
>
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