All, I continually see this error in my logs. As I understand it, the account is used to map users who fail to authenticate and samba tries to use the nobody account. Am I wrong? As you can see, this happens throughout the night. Any thoughts as to what is happening? Cheers, Tony Oct 29 18:32:59 sifl smbd[8811]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 29 19:20:59 sifl smbd[8871]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 29 21:08:58 sifl smbd[9034]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 29 22:08:58 sifl smbd[9178]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 29 22:46:28 sifl smbd[9211]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 29 23:10:28 sifl smbd[9265]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 29 23:34:28 sifl smbd[9292]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 00:25:27 sifl smbd[9351]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 00:37:27 sifl smbd[9375]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 01:01:27 sifl smbd[9429]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 01:37:27 sifl smbd[9459]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 02:14:12 sifl smbd[9516]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 02:38:12 sifl smbd[9543]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 03:02:11 sifl smbd[9597]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 03:14:11 sifl smbd[9600]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 04:41:11 sifl smbd[9845]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 04:53:10 sifl smbd[9848]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Oct 30 04:53:10 sifl smbd[9848]: authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody -- ------------------------------- Tony Ricker Technology Coordinator SLUCare - P.M.O. St. Louis University Phone: 314.977.6844 E-mail: rickera2@slu.edu ------------------------------- "In the beginners mind, there are many possibilities. In the experts mind, there are few" - Shunryu Suzuki ------------------------------- "Think Different"