[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#445566: samba: smbclient returning 'string length'+1 of the first character of the share name

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Shawn,

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:04:25PM -0400, Shawn Stricker wrote:
> the samba server is returning 'string length'+1 of the first
> character of the share name. no matter which machine or version that
> requests the share list it always returns the same value.

Does this mean that these are the values you get when querying this server
from Windows clients, too?

In the upstream bug report, Volker mentions that a plain build of Samba on
this system works correctly, but I don't see anything in the Debian patches
to suggest they're the reason for the behavior difference.  This leaves as
possible sources of the problem the toolchain, the options the Debian
package is passing to ./configure, a difference in Samba's platform
detection when building on your system vs. the Debian buildd, or a
difference in the libraries being linked in because your system didn't have
all of the samba package's build-deps installed when Volker ran its test. 
Would it be possible for me to also get access to this machine, to step
through these possibilities to isolate the source of the problem?  Otherwise
I don't have access to a suitable arm system where I could try to debug
this.

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