[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#701038: samba: Cannot set netbios name to hostname

Derek Seabrooke derek.seabrooke at tvchannelzero.com
Wed Feb 20 19:03:46 UTC 2013


Package: samba
Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze9
Severity: normal

When Netbios Name field is not filled in at smb.conf or if the parameter
"netbios name = %h" is used, no netbios name is set.  However the parameter
"netbios name = samba-%h" for instance has the expected result.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser           3.112+nmu2             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf- 1.5.36.1               Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1           2.2.49-4               Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1          1:2.4.44-2             Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6             2.11.3-4               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2           1:2.19-3               support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcomerr2        1.41.12-4stable1       common error description library
ii  libcups2          1.4.4-7+squeeze2       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze6   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3      1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze6   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3         1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze6   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2     2.4.23-7.2             OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules    1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1     Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime    1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1     Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g          1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0          1.16-1                 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc2        2.0.1-1                hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0      2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze9 Samba winbind client library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-23.2squeeze1       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps            1:3.2.8-9squeeze1      /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common      2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze9 common files used by both the Samb
ii  update-inetd      4.38+nmu1+squeeze1     inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.8-6    Log rotation utility

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ctdb                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  ldb-tools                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  openbsd-inetd | inet-superser <none>     (no description available)
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: true



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