Constant Samba error in Syslog

[theRax]

I am very perplexed with this Samba error. I am running Samba as a stand alone server to simply share files with several Windows XP computers. Everything works fine, however, every time someone accesses one of the shares this error appears in the syslog:

Oct 21 09:43:50 spev smbd[26899]: [2004/10/21 09:43:50, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(541)
Oct 21 09:43:50 spev smbd[26899]: Can't become connected user!

I thought this may be because I am running about 9 computers through the same username so I created a new user and tested it out with one computer and the error still came up.

Does anyone have any ideas? (The extra parameters under techcenter are the changes I made to test out with the new user)

Here's my smb.conf:

[global]
        workgroup = SERVERS
        server string = Samba Fileserver
        valid users = @techstaff, @childstaff
        hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.0/24
        hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0

[techcenter]
        comment = Staff files
        path = /fileserver/techcenter
        read only = No
        force user = techshare
        force group = techstaff
        nt acl support = no

[gateplex]
        comment = Gateplex
        path = /fileserver/gateplex
        read only = No

[childrens]
        comment = Childrens files
        path = /fileserver/childrens
        read only = No

 

[PHV]

Does smbd run as root ?
Is techshare a valid user and techstaff a valid group ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
Want to get great answers to your Tek-Tips questions? Have a look at FAQ219-2884 or FAQ222-2244

 

[theRax]

How would I know if smbd runs as root? If I do a ps aux then it shows all instances of smbd except one as being run by root.

Techshare is a valid user and techstaff is a valid group. I created both of them and additionally created Techshare with smbpasswd -a.

 

[stanhubble]

have you enabled them with smbpasswd -e ?

 

[theRax]

Yep, just did it right now to be sure... but the same error continues to appear...

 

[clonny2]

The problem isnot that you can not connect, it is that these error messages keep apearing.

What version of Samba?
What specific os are you running samba on?

smbd -v to get samba version.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[theRax]

Samba 3.0.4 running on Slackware 10