[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#453102: samba mount from Windows does not show all directories and files

[Tibor Kovacs]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge9
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Unfortunately this latest samba package introduced a new bug:

Whereas the last package (3.0.14a-3sarge7) did not work with
smbfs/smbmount from Linux clients, this newest one (3.0.14a-3sarge9)
introduced an even worse new bug:

 From windows clients the shares mounted do not show all the directories
and files existent on the share.
Some of them, though being there, are just not displayed in Windows
explorer, others show up without problem.
I do not understand why, because the directories have exactly the same
owners and rights.

Maybe their names can give some clues (these are just arbitrary examples):

not displayed: C29TH-95_F21-34
displayed normally: C01SX-18-1-FC2-f17-22

Both of them are directories. Both of them are displayed correctly from
Linux clients, both mounted by smbfs or cifs.

I had to revert to the buggy 3.0.14a-3sarge7 package that at least works
with Windows clients properly.
But we have some important old Redhat machines at our Institute with
kernel 2.4 that are not capable to mount CIFS, only SMB.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to identify the problem.

Best regards
Tibor Kovacs