[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#821801: Bug#821801: smbclient: Problems with smbclient since badlock update

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 13:43 +0200, tkla wrote:
> Package: smbclient
> Version: 4.2.10
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> since the badlock fixes my backup software Amanda stopped working
> when we're
> trying to backup Windows shares.
> 
> Please have a look at the bug report i have opened at upstream
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11854
> 
> Maybe we can find out together why this is happening and what we can
> do about
> it.
> 
> For now i have to use the old and insecure version of Samba which is
> not very
> satisfying.

Given the scale of the tar changes, I can only suggest reproducing the issue on current 4.4, and seeing if it is fixed there, or could be, as that could potentially be backported.

However, the code was essentially re-written, and some features were lost.

Andrew Bartlett

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