[Samba] nobody user showing in smbstatus

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sat Apr 3 12:45:05 UTC 2021


On 03/04/2021 13:05, Sweetth Devil wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
> Thank you I understand, I have fixed the issue see below smb.conf (I 
> removed both [homes] & [profiles] as I don't use it.
>
> But I still have this issue with nobody user from my son's chromebook:
>
> sudo smbstatus -b
>
> Samba version 4.14.2
> PID     Username     Group        Machine 
>                                   Protocol Version  Encryption 
>           Signing
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> 25839   nobody       nobody       localhost (ipv4:192.168.1.204:45508 
> <http://192.168.1.204:45508>)      SMB3_11           - 
>                    -
>

OK, what does 'sudo smbstatus -S' show ?

It could just be guest user on the chromebook trying to connect to the 
IPC$ share, if so, I would think you would need to turn of the guest 
user on the chromebook.

Rowland





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