samba - Aug 2014 - process_lanman_packet: Discarding datagram from IP x.x.x.x. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our names !

Aug  6 11:21:44 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:21:44.614859, 0] 
../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
Aug  6 11:21:44 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our names !
Aug  6 11:22:50 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:22:50.279516,  0] 
../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
Aug  6 11:22:50 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our names !
Aug  6 11:24:06 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:24:06.183526,  0] 
../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
Aug  6 11:24:06 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our names !
Aug  6 11:25:06 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:25:06.246170,  0] 
../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
Aug  6 11:25:06 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our names !


For quite a while now, I have been receiving vast numbers of these 
messages in my log files.

I do not see any other problems with samba, but it is annoying, and I am 
sure it means that something is not set up quite correctly.

However, I have tried to follow suggestions found on the web for similar 
problems and nothing seems to have made any difference.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks in advance,
Michael

--
Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg at netvision.net.il

What is 192.168.1.6 ? Is it the server or some other machine?

Is LINUX as machine name, workgroup name or domain name?        Is the 
samba server a WINS server?      It looks like some other machine may be 
claiming  a machine name , or the master browser for a workgroup or 
domain ,  that your samba server also claims.


Can you do a packet capture?


On 08/06/14 04:52, Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> Aug 6 11:21:44 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:21:44.614859, 0] 
> ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
> Aug  6 11:21:44 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
> datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our
names !
> Aug  6 11:22:50 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:22:50.279516,  0] 
> ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
> Aug  6 11:22:50 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
> datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our
names !
> Aug  6 11:24:06 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:24:06.183526,  0] 
> ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
> Aug  6 11:24:06 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
> datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our
names !
> Aug  6 11:25:06 linux nmbd[2193]: [2014/08/06 11:25:06.246170,  0] 
> ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:1174(process_lanman_packet)
> Aug  6 11:25:06 linux nmbd[2193]: process_lanman_packet: Discarding 
> datagram from IP 192.168.1.6. Source name LINUX<00> is one of our
names !
>
>
> For quite a while now, I have been receiving vast numbers of these 
> messages in my log files.
>
> I do not see any other problems with samba, but it is annoying, and I 
> am sure it means that something is not set up quite correctly.
>
> However, I have tried to follow suggestions found on the web for 
> similar problems and nothing seems to have made any difference.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Michael
>
> -- 
> Michael Ben-Gershon
> mybg at netvision.net.il