Lynn, Does your smb.conf have an entry similar to:
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers If so, does the file "smbusers" exist? Do you have user accounts on both the AIX box and the W2k box? They'd be mapped in smbusers, AIX_acct=W2k_acct Have you added your users to it (smbusers)? e.g. lynn=lynn or lynnx=lynn or lynn=lynnx nobody=smb_nobody (in smb.conf, add "guest account=smb_nobody") etc. Hope this helps, Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux Lover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] Why does a W2K (pro) client do more than it > is asked to > do? > > > Desperate to find out why connecting to a samba > share(on an AIX server) from W2K is so slow, I tried > connecting to the same share from a Linux box, using > smbclient: > > smbclient \\\\aixserver\\sharedir$ -U lynn > > The results were amazing. The connection was so MUCH > FASTER then connecting from a W2K (pro) workstation: > > \\aixserver\sharedir$ (in the Start|Run edit box) > > > When I examined the samba log files on the server, I > could see why. > > The log file for the Linux client contained a single > entry: > > [2004/02/23 11:55:35, 1] > smbd/service.c:make_connection(636) linuxbox > (192.168.0.4) connect to service sharedir$ as user > lynn (uid=21776, gid=1) (pid 125438) > > So clean, so elegant, so beautiful! :) > > OTOH, the log file for the W2K client contained an > entry similar to the above, but was immediately > followed by about 30 messages of the form: > > [2004/02/23 11:59:03, 0] smbd/password.c:user_ok(683) > rejected user nobody:3004-302 Your account has > expired; please see the system administrator. > > Now... my question: Why? What does the W2K client do > that triggers this barrage of rejected authentications > of a user 'nobody' (that is clearly not allowed to > enter)? > > More importantly, is there a way to configure EITHER > the W2K client or the Samba server (or both) to not > waste time on these unallowed accesses? > > Since smbclient produces such a clean entry, I would > assume the fix must be on the client side (W2K) only. > But I would take any advice. :) > > Thanks in advance, > Lynn (Samba 2.2.8a on AIX 5.1) > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what you're looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com > -- > 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
