Samba log message

[Ken Moffat]

Alan Jackson wrote:

>The past few days the following has been showing up in my logs :
>
> --------------------- samba Begin ------------------------ 
>
> 
> Connections Denied:
>    lib/access.c:check_access(328)  192.168.0.5 : 357 Time(s)
>    smbd/process.c:process_smb(1084) 192.168.0.5 : 357 Time(s)
> 
> Forced Election:
>    In workgroup MSHOME when announced server was:
>       BOHLER-BLECHE(192.168.0.6) : 9 Time(s)
>
>What the heck is BOHLER-BLECHE and where is that coming from??
>
>$ ping 192.168.0.6
>PING 192.168.0.6 (192.168.0.6) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>
>  
>

Are you on a large network? 192.168.0.5 or .6 would normally be local
machines on your network. Either that or someone outside trying to read
your share, or is playing games and trying to break in to your machine
through samba.
However, Bohler-bleche is a steel manufacturer with offices all over
according to their website
( http://www.bohler-bleche.com ),
so maybe it's not intentional, just someone screwing up?



-- 
ken