topic Re: Samba gives Couldn't set gid -24 error in Operating System - HP-UX

Samba gives Couldn't set gid -24 error

Ian Lochray — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:40:51 GMT

I use Samba to map HP-UX file systems onto PCs running various flavours of Windows O/S. One PC has recently been upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. Now, when the PC's user tries to map a HP file system which was previously OK, she gets an invalid username/password error in Windows and the samba log shows the errors:-
Couldn't set gid -24 currently set to (0,0)
Can't become connected user!
What is going on?

Re: Samba gives Couldn't set gid -24 error

John Poff — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:28:52 GMT

Hello,

Sounds like a mismatch on the user name. Did their account name change when they upgraded?

I've seen similar complaints when the 'nobody' account is set to have a GID of -2. Which version of Samba are you running?

JP

Re: Samba gives Couldn't set gid -24 error

ricky_1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:42:33 GMT

try changing smb.conf file entry from "user" to "share" and then check if it works?
if it works then something wrongwith user id
mind U not a sleek answer!!,

best of luck

Re: Samba gives Couldn't set gid -24 error

Ian Lochray — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:34:19 GMT

There is something wrong with the way the userid is getting passed in. The username has not been changed since the upgrade but the name of the PC has. The reason for the -24 message is that samba is trying to user nobodu/nogroup and the GID of nogroup is -24. I can get round this by using a different UNIX id for the guest user but I want to know why the correct user is not being passed in.

Re: Samba gives Couldn't set gid -24 error

Russell Campbell — Mon, 06 Aug 2001 19:53:39 GMT

I have just solved this problem See Attachment.