[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#609905: adjust info

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Mon Nov 14 06:51:40 GMT 2022


Control: tag -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Adding some info to an old bug report.

This request is questionable.  In my opinion, this should be configurable
if anything. The problem is that it might be necessary to do it one way or
another.

One scenario is to create a temporary share to copy some stuff, connect to
it, start the copy process and remove it before the copy is complete - so
that there's nothing to clean up afrerwards, there's no need to babysit the
long copy process.  In this case, obviously, it's not a good idea to kill
the running connection, which leads to data corruption too.

And another scenario is maybe to kill some misbehaving session, - in this
case maybe deleting the share is a wrong thing to do.

But the original bug report was about something else really: when you delete
a share, samba keeps the port busy.  Which is true indeed, because samba
should be running as a daemon, regardless of the shares configured in
Nautilus. And this does *not*, despite what initial report says, prevents
one from creating other (user)shares, even usershares with the same name
as has just been deleted.

So I'm adding a "moreinfo" here again.  What exact behavour we're discussing
here, what exactly is wrong?

Adding "moreinfo" for now, but I'm just this >< close to closing this bug.

Thanks,

/mjt



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