samba - Dec 2004 - Annoying Samba 2.2.4 Errors in Solaris 8 Logs

Hi all, I have an error message that pops up every time someone connects
to my Samba server. All day long I get these messages from smbd:

Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] [2004/12/28
07:27:24, 0] smbd/service.c:(252)
Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error]   rhunt1-pc
(162.18.178.237) couldn't find service o

The last part, "couldn't find service o" is when the user is
accessing a
share name "OESDL" but the name is truncated. I know this because the
other errors have more letters that correspond to the shared directory,
not the name. I also know this because the directory name "oesdl" is
in
lower case. The next example shows a successful connection to the share
name "JWST". Note the truncated "jws" in reference to the
"jwst"
directory.

Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] [2004/12/28
07:27:24, 0] smbd/service.c:(252)
Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error]   rhunt1-pc
(162.18.178.237) couldn't find service jws

This is not a fatal error but an extremely irritating numerous repeating
log message to us anal sys admins that we must cut out of the logs to
find the needle in the haystack when we scan the server logs. Other than
that the samba service runs perfectly.

This server provides a flat file database for a product called PVCS VM.
A version managing software for maintaining versions of software code. I
thought maybe it could be an issue with oplocks but I have not been able
to confirm that.

Any idea what causes this?

Thanks,
Scott

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:44 -0700, Giddens, Scott wrote:
> Hi all, I have an error message that pops up every time someone connects
> to my Samba server. All day long I get these messages from smbd:
> 
> Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] [2004/12/28
> 07:27:24, 0] smbd/service.c:(252)
> Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error]   rhunt1-pc
> (162.18.178.237) couldn't find service o
> The next example shows a successful connection to the share
> name "JWST". Note the truncated "jws" in reference to
the "jwst"
> directory.
> 
> Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] [2004/12/28
> 07:27:24, 0] smbd/service.c:(252)
> Dec 28 07:27:24 srv-pvcs smbd[638]: [ID 702911 daemon.error]   rhunt1-pc
> (162.18.178.237) couldn't find service jws
> Any idea what causes this?
I've looked into this, and I think it is to do with the profile path.
Are these shares related the the user's profile or home directory?

Now, it would not entirely surprise me if we have an alignment bug in
Samba3 (given what we are learning as we build the much improved
Samba4), but it still doesn't entirely add up, as it gets it right the
second time.  I've seen the traces of this at my site, and the
connection back to the Samba server isn't the problem, somewhere in
windows the data is truncated, but what causes it I don't know.
Possibly because we don't give some detail to windows right, but we
would need to comparison-test to be sure.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet@samba.org
Authentication Developer, Samba Team            http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net

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