samba - Aug 1998 - Users Become Nobody

Hello

We recently upgraded samba on our UNIX to version 1.9.18p1 partly
because sometimes users would become NOBODY rather than their username
and this was screwing up the permissions of the files they save or try to
read. 
But this version is doing it too. It seems to be random. Every so often
Ill run smbstatus and have a look and a handfull of users are logged on
as NOBODY. 
These clients are various NT and 95 machines but this is happening to
both.
Ive also found that Network drives become disconnected everyso often and
have to be remapped?

Can anyone help?  


Thanks very much

eddie

Systems Support
UK Office for Library and Information Networking
University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK            Voice: +44 1225 826450

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba@samba.anu.edu.au [mailto:samba@samba.anu.edu.au]On Behalf Of
> Eddie Young
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 5:22 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Users Become Nobody
> 
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> We recently upgraded samba on our UNIX to version 1.9.18p1 partly
> because sometimes users would become NOBODY rather than their username
> and this was screwing up the permissions of the files they save or try to
> read. 
> But this version is doing it too. It seems to be random. Every so often
> Ill run smbstatus and have a look and a handfull of users are logged on
> as NOBODY. 
Interesting. I remeber, that every now and then I could not access my drives on
SAMBA 1.9.18p8. I must admit I didn't check user id in this case.
After disconnecting and reconnecting again using Explorer I got normal
permissions again. It sounds very close to the above problem. SAMBA was running
with user level security. Currently I am running with server level security and
so far have not seen this problem again.  The client is WInNT4.0SP3. But I have
reinstalled it since then and added the latest post-SP3 hotfixes. Some of them
are related to security, so I am not sure, if it is SAMBA or NT problem.

/Andrej