[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#451839: samba: PANIC (pid xxx): push_ascii - dest_len == -1

[Harry Sintonen]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:

> Yes, this is a known regression that was identified shortly after the
> release of 3.0.27.  It was not identified in the QA leading up to the
> release because smbfs is deprecated, and within the Debian Samba packages
> will be obsoleted by cifs in the lenny timeframe.  This particular
> regression will be fixed in 3.0.27a released tomorrow, but I would advise
> you to migrate to cifs in any case.

The client side is stuck to the custom smbfs I'm afraid (without going 
into too much detail, it's based on some rather old smbfs implementation 
and is unlikely to see further development. Yes it sucks, but such is 
life).

So the fix will be greatly appreciated.


   Regards,
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