smbd couldn't find service

  • 7005299
  • 04-Feb-2010
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 1
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 2

Situation

log files /var/log/messages and /var/log/samba/log.smbd showing:

Feb  4 20:56:59 oes2-fs1 smbd[5307]: [2010/02/04 20:56:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(1200)
Feb  4 20:56:59 oes2-fs1 smbd[5307]:   ws-xp (192.168.37.11) couldn't find service data

This message appears every time a directory is browsed on the volume data



Resolution

Samba is simply warning the system administrator that the workstation, ws-xp, is browsing a share, "data", which does not appear as an entry in smb.conf.
You can safely ignore the message or add a share entry in smb.conf  for the volume concerned, then restart smb and nmb.