[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#511276: Bug#511276: swat disagrees with smbstatus as to share mode with share modes = No set in samba

[Christian Perrier]

tags 511276 wontfix
thanks

Quoting yareckon (ymercutio at yahoo.com):
> Package: swat
> Version: 2:3.2.5-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I am running a samba share with share modes = No.  Swat reports open files as DENY_DOS on the status page, while smbstatus reports the 
> same connections as DENY_NONE.  This discrepancy caused significant loss of time troubleshooting why changing samba options did not appear 
> to take, when in fact swat was the one not reflecting the changes.  
> 
> Times of file opens and closes appear OK, just the sharing field appears wrong.

From Jeremy Allison in upstream bug #6024:

Running Samba with share modes = No is not really a supported configuration (in
fact it's never tested in any of our trees). In the 3.3 codebase it is only
looked at in one place. The real solution to this is "don't do that".

And, indeed, the smb.conf(5) man page says:

          You should NEVER turn this parameter off as many Windows applications will break if you do so.


So, we can safely assume that upstream will indeed never fix this
issue..:-)


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