Question on substitutions in smb.conf
Gerald Carter
jerry at samba.org
Thu Jan 24 07:19:23 GMT 2002
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Paul Baumgarten wrote:
> In my efforts to get it working I resorted to creating a share with
> some substitution fields in the comment to see what results they were
> returning. The following is a sample of what my conf file had:
> "comment = %u %U %g %G %m". This produced the following comment when
> viewed through Windows Explorer: "%u paulb %g %G phixx". It appears
> as though %u, %g, %G aren't working.
>
> I'm assuming that this would be a known problem. I was wondering if
> there is a fix anyone knows of? I am using samba 2.2.1a-4 (as
> provided with RH7.2)... Would installing the latest version solve the
> problem?
You should definitely try 2.2.2. I can't really remember when we
addressed this.
chau, jerry
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