On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 10:27 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > This box runs samba in order to serve up a public directory. I'm seeing many > lines in Logwatch that do not appear in the main server Logwatch, and trying > to understand what is causing them. I find this puzzling, for instance: > > nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_query_request(454) > process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.0.80 on subnet > 192.168.0.70 for name LYDGATE.LAN<1d> : 91 Time(s) > > 192.168.0.70 is this box, and 192.168.0.80 was active for a considerable time > yesterday, but "on subnet 192.168.0.70" sounds odd? > > There are other lines that seem to suggest that it is trying to connect to a > windows active domain. There is a W2K box on the lan, for which I have no > access, so can't answer for its configuration, but again, I don't see any > such lines on the main server Logwatch. > > Both boxes have Logwatch set to level Low. > > I've tried googling, but although I've found dozens of entries with similar > phrases, none that I've read so far seem to fit my circumstances. What I > really need now is some suggestions for troubleshooting this. I know I could > just ignore them, but among all that crud there could be hiding something > that I need to see, but would miss. ---- yeah it does sound odd but perusing /var/log/samba/nmbd.log on a few servers - including those with multiple ip addresses shows that this is the terminology used in samba logging. I suppose to answer definitively, one would go through the source code. Craig
