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. ------------------------------------------ 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! ------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
