[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#499419: samba: XP cannot read files with colon after upgrade to Samba 3.2.3

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Package: samba
Version: 2:3.2.3-1
Severity: important


Hello,

I have two debian lenny servers serving SAMBA shared folders to XP SP3
clients.
One server is running samba 3.2.3, the other 3.0.24.

On one of the shares there is a folder which contains email message
files with names like:

1164373321.H21047P2656.mail.domain.com:1Gnagg-0000gi-0p 

On the 3.2.3 samba server:
>From XP I can browse the folder containing that file, but if I try to copy
the file itself I get "Cannot read from source disk" windows error.
I can however copy the folder that contains the file.

On the 3.0.24 samba server:
>From XP I can browse the folder and copy the file itself as well as the
folder containing the file.

I've done some additional tests, if I remove the colon ":" from the file
name, the problem disappears.


Could you please advise what would be the reason for 3.2.3 not allowing
XP clients to copy files containing colons and 3.0.24 would?


I'm using the default smb.conf with one additional section:

  [MailBackup]
  comment = MailBackup
  writable = no
  locking = no
  path = /wwmail
  public = no
  guest ok = no
  valid users = mailusers



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.22              Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1              2.2.47-2            Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1             1:2.4.43-1          Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                2.7-13              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1              1:1.10-14           support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcomerr2           1.41.0-3            common error description library
ii  libcups2             1.3.8-1             Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls26          2.4.1-1             the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53             1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4  MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.10-3            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules       1.0.1-4+b1          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       1.0.1-4             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             1.0.1-4+b1          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0             1.14-4              lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc1           1.2.0~git20080616-1 hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0         2:3.2.3-1           client library for interfacing wit
ii  logrotate            3.7.1-3             Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base             3.2-19              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps               1:3.2.7-8           /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common         2:3.2.3-1           Samba common files used by both th
ii  update-inetd         4.30+nmu1           inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12   compression library - runtime

samba recommends no packages.

Versions of packages samba suggests:
ii  openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-1 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
pn  smbldap-tools               <none>       (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded