samba - Jul 2003 - Problems with force (user|group) and XP Professional?

Hi all,

In continuing of previous problems, I've noticed some potential problems
with force user / force group and Windows XP Professional.

I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the fact
that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues
trying to authenticate to other services/shares as that user (smbugest).
I'm not sure if this carry-over is being done in XP or in Samba or in their
interaction, but I know it's happening.

Every other service on the samba server has user smbguest as an invalid
user, so once a machine authenticated to the forced user service, it lost
connections to all other services.  I have since changed configuration, and
it all /seems/ to be working at this point.  Just wondering if others can
comment/confirm/deny the above?

  - Damian

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In continuing of previous problems, I've noticed some potential
problems
> with force user / force group and Windows XP Professional.
>
> I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the
fact
> that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues
> trying to authenticate to other services/shares as that user (smbugest).
> I'm not sure if this carry-over is being done in XP or in Samba or in
their
> interaction, but I know it's happening.
I have not seen this happening - have tested both SHARE mode and USER mode
security. I have tested this with:

	Win 98 / Me / NT4 Wkstn / 2000 Pro / XP Pro
> Every other service on the samba server has user smbguest as an invalid
> user, so once a machine authenticated to the forced user service, it lost
> connections to all other services.  I have since changed configuration, and
> it all /seems/ to be working at this point.  Just wondering if others can
> comment/confirm/deny the above?
Please post your smb.conf file. I'd like to see how you have configured
this.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

Thus spake Damian Gerow (damian@sentex.net) [03/07/03
13:19]:
> I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the
fact
> that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues
> trying to authenticate to other services/shares as that user (smbugest).
> I'm not sure if this carry-over is being done in XP or in Samba or in
their
> interaction, but I know it's happening.
> 
> Every other service on the samba server has user smbguest as an invalid
> user, so once a machine authenticated to the forced user service, it lost
> connections to all other services.  I have since changed configuration, and
> it all /seems/ to be working at this point.  Just wondering if others can
> comment/confirm/deny the above?
FWIW, I can confirm that the fix I put in (removing all force user/group
declarations) has indeed worked -- the majority of our XP problems are now
gone.  Now to finish figuring out the slow roaming profiles...