The default configuration of samba should try to map the guest account to user nobody. The guest account is important for various smb functions, is is probably *always* used by smbd and nmbd. One of this is probably crashing if it cannot find the guest account user. Check your logs to see if any information is being printed there.
As someone already pointed out, noboby is an important conceptual user in Unix/Linux. Don't worry, it isn't a security risk. It should not be possible to login as nobody. However, processes that are running as root can drop their permissions to "nobody" to make their operation more secure on the system. On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-15] Gerd M�ller wrote: Hello, today i deleted the user "nobody" (entry "nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin" in /etc/passwd) on my samba-server. As result, no user could log in to domain anymore. Does anybody know, what the user "nobody" plays for a role in samba? Gerd M�ller, St. Petersburg -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
