File and printer sharing problem

[painterh]

I am Glad that DaddyX's solution worked for you. I know that vista had an update today. Maybe XP had one also... in my home configuration, my computer is hooked directly into my router so is always networked on. and I just logged onto my router to get the client list and configure it from there ( HP photosmart C5140 All in-one) it has an Ethernet port in the rear which may explain why its going into the router.

ixnod;
Hey I didn't mean not to acknowledge your input. Thanks for your input. My printer does not have networking support, so I have to connect to it through my wife's computer, which is where things got dicey.

[SaddleTramp]

Hey there Saddletramp;
Thanks for the links, I will check them out. I bookmarked them for now. I had the strangest thing upon boot-up this morning. After I selected ubuntu from my grub menu and it started to load, I got a message saying it was going to check my linux hard drive due to errors that were found. After the check was completed, I finished booting into 1.8 but was greeted with a message that I was running out of disk space on sdb1(my linux drive).
This, in itself, is very strange because I should have plenty of space available on this 160 gig drive. I immediately started up "quickstart" and ran a cleanup of all unnecessary files. A quick check of "my computer" properties shows only 1.7 gigs free space on this drive. I don't know whats going on. Also, I ran apt-get remove --purge samba, so I could start fresh in case my samba config file was screwed up. When I went to my wife's Windows XP computer connected to same router, it showed my computer as "CAD Architects, Stockholm, East 32st, 34th fl., [Samba 24]". My computer has never been listed by that name before. Something very strange is going on.

Holy Chit Batman!!! You didn't buy that HDD used did ya??? Have you been on their website or somethin'?? You could load the ClamAV GUI and run a virus check...or check one of your network monitors (if you've had one running)...damn...don't know what else to say ph..but it don't sound good at all!!!

[LeadFingers]

If your computer ID has changed on the network then prolly your Host name has changed. This will cause all sorts of nightmarish issues until resolved.

to check if this is an issue or not:
In a terminal

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sudo synaptic

(We aren't interested in doing anything with synaptic, we only want to see if it opens up without an error message)
If the next thing it does is asks for your password, your host name is Good and this is not an issue.
If it gives you the response could not resolve host-your_user_name (before it asks for your password)
Your host is borked.

The Quick fix:
In a terminal

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sudo gedit /etc/hosts

it should look like this

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 leadfingers-desktop

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

The red section should be your_user_name-desktop
if not, edit it & save
exit

try the sudo synaptic command to see if it's fixed.

As for the full disc:
it sounds like someone accessed your network and filled your drive (most likely with CAD drawings & related data). Check your home directory (places...homefolder, for our other readers) for any strange files or folders.Obviously, if they aren't yours delete them.

to keep this from happening in the future:
check your sharing options for everything you share on your network.
be sure to uncheck allow other people to write in this folder

[painterh]

Hey all;
Synaptic opens with no problem, and the hosts file is just as it should be, (identical to yours, except for the names). I don't know anything about clamv antivirus. I will check into that. As for the hard drive, I bought 2 identical Seagate Barricuda SATA 160s when I built this box and have never had any trouble. Is there a way to check the drive within Linux? Maybe I'll boot into XP and see what it reports about the drive. I have installed a program in XP that enables Windows to read and write to my Linux drive.

[SaddleTramp]

Hey all;
Synaptic opens with no problem, and the hosts file is just as it should be, (identical to yours, except for the names). I don't know anything about clamv antivirus. I will check into that. As for the hard drive, I bought 2 identical Seagate Barricuda SATA 160s when I built this box and have never had any trouble. Is there a way to check the drive within Linux? Maybe I'll boot into XP and see what it reports about the drive. I have installed a program in XP that enables Windows to read and write to my Linux drive.

painter..I know the command is fsck...but I'm not sure what parameters/options you should use to check the drive...I believe tho' that you can't be mounted on the drive to check it (at least it's not advisable too)...you can read from the Terminal manual (open Terminal type man fsck and use your arrows to scroll down)...you'll see the parameters/options used with fsck

[painterh]

Hey there
I just finished doing investigation on that drive. It seems I have 2 files which are the culprits. In /var/log I have one file called daemon.log.0, and one called syslog.0 and they are each 48 GBs. I checked to see what kind of files they were, and they were listed as text files. I am not sure how to check what they are for, but this seems very weird. I seem to have 4 packages called daemon.log and they are numbered 1 thru 4. They are Gzip archives. Does anyone have any clue what I am looking at?

[SaddleTramp]

Hey there
I just finished doing investigation on that drive. It seems I have 2 files which are the culprits. In /var/log I have one file called daemon.log.0, and one called syslog.0 and they are each 48 GBs. I checked to see what kind of files they were, and they were listed as text files. I am not sure how to check what they are for, but this seems very weird. I seem to have 4 packages called daemon.log and they are numbered 1 thru 4. They are Gzip archives. Does anyone have any clue what I am looking at?

hmmmmm....I've got daemon.log (33.8KB) & daemon.log.0 (297.6KB and daemon.log.1.gz (9.7KB when extracted)...and don't got a clue what the heck they're for...and don't know if I ought to be suspicious of them or not but it almost looks like someone trying to get into a wireless network...and I don't even have one LMAO...something about a user 'avahi'..no clue whatsoever...but the size of the files you have...dang man...hope somebody comes by that know what's going on...in the meantime I'm Googlin' to see what I can find out...

[DaddyX3]

Hey painterh- Got an update for you. I got to work this morning and started in on my head-ache nice and early. Went to the XP machine and removed it from the network and then went in and went through the network setup wizard again and made it part of 'WORKGROUP', let it finish setting it all up and then did a reboot. Everything fell right in to place after that. Went back in and tried to setup the new printer 'via SAMBA' and everything worked! I'm not going to get too excited about it at the moment, because I've done this in the past and have gotten slapped 'up-side' the head with a wake up call the very next day with printer problems again. But for now, Everything is back to normal again.

-About your other problem, Have you tried to lock down your directories to be not shared? I would only guess that your box is being used for storage on your network? It seems to be that you have a lot of data being collected from your network. I'm just wondering if there is a setting somewhere that is ticked that will save a txt log of everywhere and everything you do. But, even then, it seems like you have a seriously large txt file!!! That has to be the largest amount of text I have ever heard about. Hell, I'd just erase them all and see what happens. Or better yet. make a backup of them and remember the address for the backups and then if you have any problems you can always recover the backup file from (recovery mode) in GRUB. Do you need help with this?

[painterh]

DaddyX3;
That's sounds like a possibility. I'm not sure where to go next. I read some of the log entries in the daemon.log.0 file and it does make references to activity from various addresses which seem like they could be addresses of one or more of my computers. Any idea where to start? I'm wondering about trying to reconfigure samba from scratch, seeing as how after your post yesterday which helped me get printing working again,if something I did there started this whole daemon.log.0 nightmare. I say start from scratch, because I purged my samba config file, as I was not planning on using it again. I looked at that samba config last night and it was really screwed up, hence the urge to purge(hey that's poetry). I hate these cause and effect type problems, because it invariably ends up that something somewhere in my system never gets back quite where it should before the initial glitch and is a bug waiting for another day. I just wish I knew what started it. Anyway, where to start.??

[painterh]

Does anybody know how I can get rid of those huge log files? (syslog.0 48GBs, daemon.log.0 48GBs) Is it OK to edit them using gedit and then just "select all" and then hit delete, or will that cause other problems?