Samba log message

[Ronnie Gauthier]

Its possible that BOHLER-BLECHE, in setting up a production or test machine 
flubbed an IP and typo'd yours in.

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 16:28:13 -0500
Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:

> 192.168.0.6 isn't on my network, and I have my dsl router set up to 
> block pretty much all traffic from outside. This is a 4-5 PC network 
> at home.
> 
> I guess I should double check the router settings...
> 
> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:49:29 -0700
> Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
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