Printing problems with 2.0.0 vs 1.9.18p10

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Fri Oct 9 03:14:44 GMT 1998


Hmmm, more info on this ...

At 12:12 PM 10/9/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We are having a problem with printing under the current 2.0.0 source tree.
>
>It seems that Win95 machines do an OpenX for file with a blank name when
>writing to a printing share.
>
>Under Samba1.9.18p10, this gets translated to %m.random in the name
>mangling code, but under 2.0.0, this gets translated to ., which is a
>directory, and we get back an error response.
>
>Has anyone seen this behaviour and can anyone see a fix?

After unix_clean_name is called, the file name is a . rather than empty.

>Regards
>-------
>Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, NIC-Handle:RJS96
>NS Computer Software and Services P/L, 
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>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, NIC-Handle:RJS96
NS Computer Software and Services P/L, 
Ph: +61-8-8281-0063, FAX: +61-8-8250-2080, 
Samba, Linux, Apache, Digital UNIX, AIX, Netscape, Stronghold, C, ...


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