Windows XP and veto files

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Colin Higgs wrote:

> We've been running into a problem with our samba servers (2.2.3 on
> RedHat 7.3) for a little while now where Windows XP boxes would refuse
> to access the [homes] share for users, while win9x, NT, 2000 all would.  
> After some head scratching, it seems the problem was down to this
> setting:
> 
> veto files = /.*/
> 
> which was there to prevent windows users from deleting their dot files.
> 
> It seems XP accesses shares somewhat differently and, as far as we can
> make out from the logs, is trying to access shares/folders by "cd"-ing
> to the folder and then asking to list "." - which, of course, does not
> exist because samba has veto'd it...
> 
> Our web searches at the time found quite a few people asking this
> question, but none with answers - I haven't tried searching since we
> found the solution. Perhaps it would be useful to add a warning about
> this setting mixed with XP in the smb.conf man page?
> 
> Hoping this will help someone spend less time than I did on the problem...

I think this is an old bug fixed in the latest release.  Can you retest
using 2.2.6




cheers, jerry
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