[Samba] nobody user showing in smbstatus

[Rowland penny]

On 03/04/2021 17:23, Sweetth Devil wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
> See below:
>
> $ sudo smbstatus -b
>
> Samba version 4.14.2
> PID     Username     Group        Machine 
>                                   Protocol Version  Encryption           S
> igning
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------
> 30216   nobody       nobody       localhost (ipv4:192.168.1.204:39650 
> <http://192.168.1.204:39650>)      SMB3_11           - 
>                    -
>
> [sweetth at pbertol ~]$ sudo smbstatus -S
>
> Service      pid     Machine       Connected at 
>                     Encryption   Signing
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> IPC$         30216   localhost     Sat Apr  3 17:21:15 2021 BST     - 
>            -
> But the guest account is already disabled on Chromebook.
>

Something is connecting as 'nobody' to the IPC$  share, this could be 
the guest user on the chromebook, or it could in fact be the user 
'nobody'. It isn't really a problem because you haven't allowed guest 
access to Samba, so the user (whom ever it is) will not get any further.

Rowland