[Samba] Red X and guest user message in logs

[Joel Franco]

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On Sex Nov 25 05 19:00, Marco De Vitis wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Debian Sarge machine running Samba 3.0.14a as PDC and file server.
> Everything runs smoothly, except for a random problem: users (on 
> Win2000Pro clients) are often seeing a red cross on the main network 
> share, as if it was disconnected. This red X seems to come and go at random.
> 

I had that problem of a radom red X in the mapped drive too when the
server was a Win98 machine. The problem was hardware on this server.

> The red cross would not be a big issue itself, but it has an annoying 
> consequence: when it appears, Windows thinks the connection is down, so 
> if you save a file on the share while the red X is there you get an 
> error dialog telling something like "The connection to the server has 
> been reset. The file cannot be saved." (recalling from memory and 
> translating from Italian, so the actual English message might be very 
> different).
> The file is saved anyway, but users are obviously alarmed by the message.
> 
> I had a look at my Samba logs (level 2) around the time when an user 
> told me he noticed the red cross, but didn't find anything special, 
> exception made for the following message:
> 
> >[2005/11/25 17:14:51, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(314)
> >  guest user (from session setup) not permitted to access this share 
> >  (COMMESSE)
> 
> The user was already authenticated on the domain, and didn't logoff, so 
> I can't understand where does this guest access come from.
> Can this message be related to my problem?
> 
> Here follows an excerpt from my smb.conf, as returned by testparm, with 
> some more or less sensible data <omitted>.
> BTW, the log file where I found that message was named 
> "<client_name>..log", which is correct (see log file setting below).
> 
> I really hope someone can give me some clues, as this has been going on 
> for months now.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> ---------------------
> [global]
>         unix charset = UTF8
>         workgroup = <domain name>
>         server string = Server Linux, Samba %v
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>         log level = 2 vfs:2
>         syslog = 0
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.%U.log
>         max log size = 0
>         logon script = netlogon.bat
>         logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
>         logon drive = Z:
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 64
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         enhanced browsing = No
>         create mask = 0664
>         directory mask = 0775
>         hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
>         ea support = Yes
>         hide files = /desktop.ini/.DS_Store/
>         veto oplock files = /NTUSER.DAT/
>         map archive = No
>         store dos attributes = Yes
>         dos filemode = Yes
> 
> [netlogon]
>         path = /home/netlogon
>         browseable = No
> 
> [profiles]
>         path = /home/samba/profiles
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0600
>         directory mask = 0700
>         browseable = No
> 
> [COMMESSE]
>         path = <a valid path>
>         invalid users = <one username>
>         force user = <another username>
>         read only = No
>         vfs objects = recycle
>         recycle:exclude = ~$* ~*.doc *~*.tmp *.bak
>         recycle:touch = yes
>         recycle:versions = yes
>         recycle:keeptree = yes
>         recycle:repository = .cestino
> ---------------------
> 
> -- 
> Ciao,
>   Marco.
> 
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