Samba 2.2 alpha3 released

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Sat Mar 24 15:56:56 GMT 2001


On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Christian Barth wrote:

> > Prepare to split wildcard handling out for old DOS/Win3.x clients,
> > not done yet.
>
> Does this mean that future releases of samba will not
> fully suport these old clients? This would be a drawback as we have a
> net that needs not only new w2k-machines but also these old clients
> (never change running labatory equipment). Sorry if this is a silly
> question.

No. it means that wilcard matching is different in DOS and NT clients.
Different mattern matching algorithms are needed to correctly handle this.




Cheers, jerry





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