At 4:00 every morning the 2 WinXP machines on my network generate a slew
of queries to bad printer names. These names are variations on the name
of a valid printer exported by Samba.
Samba v3.0.10 is running on a RHEL4 system. It exports several shared
drives and a single printer. The printer is named "lj4500", is
managed by
CUPS v1.1.22, and works correctly via Samba from both WinXP boxes.
Here's a snippet of my smb.conf file:
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
So what is going on with those WinXP machines at 4:00AM? The only thing I
can think of is the daily system-wide scan done by Norton Antivirus (NAV).
Can anyone shed some light on what is going on here and how I can stop
these queries to bogus printer names?
Thanks.
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Logged Samba errors:
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:34, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:34 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne03
Jan 24 03:59:35 nemesis smbd[3799]: [2006/01/24 03:59:35, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:35 nemesis smbd[3799]: venus (192.168.0.3) couldn't find
service lj4500.exe
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500,winspool,ne00
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: [2006/01/24 03:59:58, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
Jan 24 03:59:58 nemesis smbd[4549]: mars (192.168.0.5) couldn't find
service lj4500.exe
Logged CUPS errors:
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:01 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne00' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:02 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:13 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:13 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:13 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:13 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:13 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:13 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:14 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:14 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:14 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03:.exe' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:14 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500,winspool,ne03' no good!
E [23/Jan/2006:04:00:14 -0500] get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/lj4500.exe' no good!
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