samba user uid failure?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 5 07:10:55 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Gregory Woodbury <redwolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> samba has begun acting strangely.  I'm using it to share a filesystem to an
> XP client and the logs are showing:
>
> [2010/12/04 22:55:05.112604,  1] smbd/service.c:1070(make_connection_snum)
> tembo (::ffff:10.11.12.2) connect to service karaoke  initially as user
> ggw (uid=0, gid=501) (pid 19445)
>
> The problem is that ggw should not be set to uid=0
>
> I've tried to smbpasswd add the ggw user, but /etc/samba/smbuser isn't being
> updated.
>
> Installed version of samba is:
> Name        : samba
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 3.5.6
> Release     : 71.fc14
> Size        : 17 M
> Repo        : installed
> From repo   : updates-testing

What's the output of
id ggw
pdbedit -Lv -u ggw
pdbedit -Lw -u ggw
testparm -s --parameter-name 'passdb backend'


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