[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#605728: smb/gvfs-copy: Error while copying file, "Invalid argument"

[Andres Cimmarusti]

Package: smbclient
Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-1
Severity: important

When I mount a samba share using the "connect to server" icon in the gnome-menus, I am able to browse, delete and even get files from the remote server, but when I try copying it fails consistently with the error: "Invalid argument"

This is a well known bug in the samba 3.4.x that reappeared in 3.5.x. Fortunately it has been fixed upstream: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7791
But it will only appear in version 3.5.7 of samba which still hasn't been released. Please backport this fix, as this problem is very annoying, it renders samba unusable to me and many others as reported here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/393012
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598620
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633937

Ubuntu 10.10 has already patched their version of samba

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages smbclient depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                 1:2.19-3         support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcomerr2              1.41.12-2        common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2        1.8.3+dfsg-2     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3            1.8.3+dfsg-2     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3               1.8.3+dfsg-2     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.23-6         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpopt0                1.16-1           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libreadline6            6.1-3            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libtalloc2              2.0.1-1          hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0            2:3.5.6~dfsg-1   Samba winbind client library
ii  samba-common            2:3.5.6~dfsg-1   common files used by both the Samb
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

smbclient recommends no packages.

Versions of packages smbclient suggests:
ii  cifs-utils                    2:4.5-2    Common Internet File System utilit

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