[Samba] Log files created for every machine not joined to the domain...

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 20:06:35 GMT 2007


> I'm currently running Samba as a PDC (and several BDCs) on our network.  The
> domain is currently in a testing stage and only has a small number (less than 5)
> machines joined to it.  However, when I go to the /var/log/samba directory,
> there seems to be a log file created for virtually every machine on our network.
>  When I open a few of the log files, it looks like authentication attempts are
> taking place--against both the local machine and the domain)... why is that?  Is
> it normal for Samba to create log files for machines that aren't yet a part of
> the domain?
>
I get log files for every single ip address that tries to contact the
samba server even if they are not part of the domain.

John


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