[Samba] Ongoing Samba Errors

[Nigel Allen]

Greetings

We just updated two RH9 servers to 3.0.14a-1 and are still seeing a lot
of errors in the logs.

They're not stopping us working but I would _really_ like to understand
what is causing them.

On the first server, in the logwatch,  we get a whole swag of:

samba:
   Unknown Entries:
      session opened for user janicer by (uid=0): 6 Time(s)
      session opened for user sonjap by (uid=0): 8 Time(s)
      session opened for user heatherf by (uid=0): 1 Time(s)
      session closed for user georgev: 122 Time(s)
      session closed for user heatherf: 1 Time(s)
      session opened for user karens by (uid=0): 3 Time(s)
      session closed for user margaretn: 1 Time(s)
      session opened for user johnw by (uid=0): 1 Time(s)
      session opened for user connieg by (uid=0): 3 Time(s)
      session closed for user janicer: 6 Time(s)
      session closed for user lindaa: 1 Time(s)
      session opened for user yanal by (uid=0): 2 Time(s)
      session opened for user wendym by (uid=0): 3 Time(s)

I don't understand why these should be "Unknown Entries" and would
really like to .

Then I see a whole load of:

mbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 256 given to dptr_close : 33
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 257 given to dptr_close : 32
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 258 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 259 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 260 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 261 given to dptr_close : 25
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 262 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 263 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 264 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 265 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 266 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 267 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 268 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 269 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)
smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(271)  Invalid key 270 given to dptr_close : 26
Time(s)

And I _mean_ a whole load of them - this is just a quick extract

And then finally I see a swag of:

smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc001 (192.168.0.201) couldn't find
service  : 2676 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc002 (192.168.0.202) couldn't find
service  : 11011 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc003 (192.168.0.203) couldn't find
service  : 1948 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc004 (192.168.0.204) couldn't find
service  : 1918 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc005 (192.168.0.205) couldn't find
service  : 2 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc007 (192.168.0.207) couldn't find
service  : 1 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc008 (192.168.0.208) couldn't find
service  : 2598 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc012 (192.168.0.212) couldn't find
service  : 9503 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc013 (192.168.0.213) couldn't find
service  : 1154 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc014 (192.168.0.214) couldn't find
service  : 1190 Time(s)
smbd/service.c:make_connection(794)  pc015 (192.168.0.215) couldn't find
service  : 1782 Time(s)

Okay - I admit to total confusion.

We run Samba in our own office (this is on a customers site btw) and I
have never had problems like this before.

Should I also post my smb.conf?

Whilst I don't expect a miracle, can someone please (gently) point me in
the right direction and suggest where I might start to look for the
answers?

TIA

Nigel.


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