From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 13:54:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B9816A500 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EC443D49 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:54:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i08LsOMr025438; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:54:24 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <34968.207.46.125.17.1073592934.squirrel@wrongcrowd.com> References: <20040108200048.74F4416A4DD@hub.freebsd.org> <34968.207.46.125.17.1073592934.squirrel@wrongcrowd.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:54:22 -0500 To: matt@wrongcrowd.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: smblog format? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:54:26 -0000 At 12:15 PM -0800 1/8/04, Matt Staroscik wrote: >When I connect my PocketPC to my Samba server, the device has a >very strange name in smblog: > >netbios connect: local=server remote=_cerdrc9cb8005 > _cerdrc9cb8005 (192.168.1.94) connect to service Music > as user USER (uid=xxxx, gid=xxxx) (pid 44909) > >"_cerdrc9cb8005" is just an example, the exact string changes. My >other samba clients have "normal" names in the log. > >Where is Samba getting this string from? Note the part: _cerdrc9cb8005 (192.168.1.94) I would guess that means _cerdrc9cb8005 is considered the hostname for IP address 192.168.1.94. Do you have a DHCP server setup? If not, the PocketPC may be picking a name out of thin air. That is what I would guess is happening. However, I believe the message you're talking about is one that you can specify the format of. None of my logfiles look like the line that you have. (I'm running samba 2.2.8a). Check your smb.conf file and see what you have in that line. (it might be that you ARE seeing the default line -- because I certainly do customize the messages on my server...) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu