Log question

Tony Ricker
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:54:26 -0000

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





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E-mail: rickera2@slu.edu
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