samba - Oct 2003 - user nobody

When my windoze 2K client tries to open some files, i get the following
message in smdb log:

[2003/10/01 16:00:42, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(843)
  oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file
projects/avin/wieland/806
[2003/10/01 16:00:42, 0] smbd/reply.c:reply_lockingX(4393)
  reply_lockingX: Error : oplock break from client for fnum = 13277 and no
oploc
[2003/10/01 16:00:42, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(915)
  authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody
[2003/10/01 16:02:54, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(915)
  authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody
[2003/10/01 16:02:57, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(915)
  authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody
[2003/10/01 16:06:16, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(915)
  authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody
/var/log/samba/log.smbd lines 33065-33087/33087 (END)


This results in a file taking 15+ seconds to open, does any one know why
windoze tries to connect as user nobody - especially when the share is
already connected and mapped as a drive with username / password and what
does oplock break mean?

thanks

Rob Carter

Dear all 
I set up Samba 3 first official release on Redhat Linux  7.3, configured it(I
believe) as per documentation and tried net rpc vampire from an NT4 PDC and the
output I got, was that it appeared to be creating UNIX user groups, without any
complaints, but when it got down to migrating user accounts, it gave the same
error on all user accounts, "Couldnt create posix account for user
..."
I tried searching the archives and the documentation but failed. 
Also, on migration, the documentation says that it is strongly recommended that
you create Samba3 groups corresponding to the Windows NT user groups first. But
I was unable to find documentation on how to create groups in Samba3.
So my first question is can some help me figure out why samba3 couldnt create
posix account info? Second, can groups be created in Samba? Or is it a mistake
in the docs and it actually means Unix accounts?
Appreciate all help.
Regards
Saqib


Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
Assisant Professor
NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi

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