[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#823272: Bug#823272: libsmbclient: [Regression] Perl Filesys::SmbClient fails after move from 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u7 to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u9

[Jelmer Vernooij]

tags 823272 +moreinfo
tags 823272 +jessie
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On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 02:15:42PM -0500, Spencer S Godfrey wrote:
> After moving to the current Wheezy Oldstable version of libsmbclient, 
> 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u9, the use of the Perl module Filesys::SmbClient fails
> to read/write to samba shares citing permissions errors. Rolling back 
> to the previously installed version, 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u7, allows the perl 
> module's read/write interactions to succeed. 
> 
> 
> To verify:
> I used two systems running the same version of the Perl module,
> libfilesys-smbclient-perl, version 3.1-3+b3, and its dependencies. 
> On one, I downgraded to libsmbclient version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u7, and 
> the other remained at 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u9 (Oldstable).
> 
> The machine with 7u7 installed worked, while the machine with 7u9 did not.
> The libsmbclient package is the only package which differed between
> the machine's perl module dependencies.

This is almost certainly a dupe, e.g. of 822937.

What were you running on the server side? Can you reproduce this in sid?