Why does W2K (pro) client do more than it is asked to do?

From: Linux Lover (linuxlover992000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: 25 Feb 2004 06:11:21 -0800

Desperate to find out why connecting to a samba share (on an AIX
server) from W2K is so slow, I tried connecting to the same share from
a Linux box, using smbclient:

smbclient \\\\aixserver\\sharedir$ -U lynn

The results were amazing. The connection was so MUCH FASTER then
connecting from a W2K (pro) workstation:

\\aixserver\sharedir$ (in the Start|Run edit box)

When I examined the samba log files on the server, I could see why.

The log file for the Linux client contained a single entry:

[2004/02/23 11:55:35, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(636)
  linuxbox (192.168.0.4) connect to service sharedir$ as user lynn
(uid=21776, gid=1) (pid 125438)

So clean, so elegant, so beautiful! :)

OTOH, the log file for the W2K client contained an entry similar to
the above, but was immediately followed by about 30 messages of the
form:

[2004/02/23 11:59:03, 0] smbd/password.c:user_ok(683)
  rejected user nobody:3004-302 Your account has expired; please see
the system administrator.
  
Now... my question: Why? What does the W2K client do that triggers
this barrage of rejected authentications of a user 'nobody' (that is
clearly not allowed to enter)?

More importantly, is there a way to configure the W2K client to *not*
waste time on these unrequested/unallowed accesses?

Thanks in advance,
Lynn

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