Problems when using %G, %g or other substitutions in include =

[Philippe Höij]

Hi developers

I hope that this is the correct list for the question, as it appears to be a
bug in samba >= 2.2.1a

The problem is that the "include =" directive only seems to take "%m" as a
substitution on late samba-packages( tested on 2.2.1a and 2.2.2 on Linux
2.4.7-10, RedHat 7.2), not for instance %g, %u, %G or %U, there are
certainly more that doesn't work.

On the net I've seen a similar problem, which seems to be a ?bug? in the
function
standard_sub_advanced() as suggested by Jerry posted Wed Oct 17 13:00:05
2001 by Gerald (Jerry) Carter (jerry at samba.org) :

>These are handled by a call to standard_sub_basic()
>while %[gG] is handled by standard_sub_advanced().
>I'll look into it.

The whole message is at
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2001-October/059176.html

Is there a patch for 2.2.2 to enable the ?correct? behaviour or at least the
behaviour :-)
Or are you investigating in why it is like this?

Errors from testparm when I run it on my config file:
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Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Can't find include file /etc/samba/smb.conf.group-%G
Can't find include file /etc/samba/smb.conf.group-%g
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[test]"
Loaded services file OK.
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
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My config file for testing is at the bottom of the mail.

mvh

Philippe Höij

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# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = SOLIDX
        netbios name = LABB1
        server string = Samba Server
        encrypt passwords = Yes
#       map to guest = Bad User
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 0
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        dns proxy = No
        printing = lprng
        include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.group-%G
        include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.group-%g
        log level = 2

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        valid users = %S
        read only = No
        create mask = 0664
        directory mask = 0775
        browseable = No

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

[test]
        path = /tmp/nisse
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