[SOLVED] Samba Mystery Share

danabooth · 04-09-2024, 12:39 PM

I made a new fileserver, it is not yet live .. I simply copied our smb.conf file from our old box with a couple of minor adjustments and all works well, _however_, if I look at that box with a windows file explorer, among the shares that should be there, is one called "nobody". I have no clue why it's there, and it can't be entered. Logs don't tell me anything

Debian 12 / Samba 4.17.12

Any thoughts?

frankbell · 04-09-2024, 09:25 PM

This thread from the Ubuntu forums might be helpful.

michaelk · 04-09-2024, 10:01 PM

There are only a couple of threads with a similar problem that pop up in a search but nothing really points to a cause. It might be a samba bug but I am guessing its rarity would make it hard to debug. I am guessing that you do not have a home directory, user share or anything else in your smb.conf that might create a share called nobody. I have several systems running debian 12 with samba and never have seen a rouge share yet but must are pretty much stock configuration.

rkelsen · 04-09-2024, 11:36 PM

The cause of this seems to be that the smb.conf file shipped with Debian enables the [homes] automatic shares.

If you want to keep that feature, then the solution would be to add the following "share" to smb.conf:

Code:

[nobody]
        browseable = no

Followed by:

Code:

# systemctl restart smbd nmbd

Credit for this solution: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154522

michaelk · 04-10-2024, 04:46 AM

I stand corrected I can see the nobody share via linux file browser but not Windows. I guess I never tried which is strange... But yes adding a fake share is the workaround.

rpenny · 04-10-2024, 05:00 AM

It looks like you have the 'homes' share in use and have connected anonymously, the guest user is 'nobody', so you are being shown the home directory share for 'nobody'.

danabooth · 04-10-2024, 06:28 AM

Thanks all, the
```
[nobody]
browseable = no
```
removed the "nobody" share from view