samba - Mar 2002 - Some users can't log in -- server shows username as "nobody"

Okay, this is a recurring problem that really has me frustrated.

I have a samba server that's using security=server.  There are four people
who use it.  It works fine for three of them, but the fourth one gets
endlessly prompted for his password and is never allowed to log in.  All are
from NT 4.0 clients.

What's really puzzling is that when I look at the log at debug level 2, I
get the following when he tries to log in:

"Invalid username/password for game-devel [nobody]"

No matter what he puts in the "user" field of the password dialog,
Samba is
trying to log him in as nobody!  What's going on?

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David Brodbeck, System Administrator
InterClean Equipment, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
davidb@mail.interclean.com
(734) 975-2967 x221

Dave,
	I have had this issue and found that samba uses the nobody account if
the user fails to authenticate. Basically, the user is failing to log in
so it tries the nobody account. Make sure that the user has a legitimate
account and try smbclient to test this. I hope this helps or at least
starts a dialogue if I am wrong.

Cheers,
Tony

David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> Okay, this is a recurring problem that really has me frustrated.
> 
> I have a samba server that's using security=server.  There are four
people
> who use it.  It works fine for three of them, but the fourth one gets
> endlessly prompted for his password and is never allowed to log in.  All
are
> from NT 4.0 clients.
> 
> What's really puzzling is that when I look at the log at debug level 2,
I
> get the following when he tries to log in:
> 
> "Invalid username/password for game-devel [nobody]"
> 
> No matter what he puts in the "user" field of the password
dialog, Samba is
> trying to log him in as nobody!  What's going on?
> 
> ----------
> 
> David Brodbeck, System Administrator
> InterClean Equipment, Inc.
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
> davidb@mail.interclean.com
> (734) 975-2967 x221
> 
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I had to work around this by adding all users to the group "adm".  The
machine was Mandrake 8.2b2 and Samba 2.2.3a.
Regards
-------------------------
Gerald Drouillard
Owner and Consultant
Drouillard & Associates
http://www.Drouillard.ca

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of David Brodbeck
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: 'samba@samba.org'
> Subject: [Samba] Some users can't log in -- server shows username as
> "nobody"
>
>
> Okay, this is a recurring problem that really has me frustrated.
>
> I have a samba server that's using security=server.  There are four
people
> who use it.  It works fine for three of them, but the fourth one gets
> endlessly prompted for his password and is never allowed to log
> in.  All are
> from NT 4.0 clients.
>
> What's really puzzling is that when I look at the log at debug level 2,
I
> get the following when he tries to log in:
>
> "Invalid username/password for game-devel [nobody]"
>
> No matter what he puts in the "user" field of the password
> dialog, Samba is
> trying to log him in as nobody!  What's going on?
>
> ----------
>
> David Brodbeck, System Administrator
> InterClean Equipment, Inc.
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
> davidb@mail.interclean.com
> (734) 975-2967 x221
>
>
>
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