[Samba] "Duplicate workgroup names in browse list" problem reappeared in 3.0.5

Timo Neuvonen timo-news at eriele.fi
Fri Jul 23 13:13:50 GMT 2004


Starting from version 3.0.2 (or .3?) there were a misfeature that caused
workgroup names to show up as duplicates in workstations' browse lists. Fix
for this didn't reach into 3.0.5-pre1, but rc1 had this fixed.

Today I upgraded 3.0.5-rc1 to 3.0.5-2 (FC2 binary rpm from samba.org) and
the problem reappeared.

To be more spesific, the problem appears when there are more that one
workgroup in the network. In that case each of the workgroups appear as a
correct one, and also as a secondary fake one that contains no computers and
which has a name end-padded with blanks to appr. 15 characters. This problem
was originally discussed here in May, and a patch was releases soon, AFAIK.
Maybe this patch was dropped for some reason (eg. accidentally?) from the
final 3.0.5 although it was there in 3.0.5-rc1?


-- 
TiN



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