Unusual [homes] configuration

Simon Hyde shyde at poboxes.com
Sun Nov 23 01:00:58 GMT 1997


On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:23:18 +1100, you wrote:
>
>Well as I wrote yesterday, I tried this and got strange results.  I
>*was* using 1.9.16p11 .  I upgraded to 1.9.17p4 today and tried it
>again.  Success!!!!!
>
>I had to use filename.%G instead of filename.%g though.  I'm not
>sure why the "%g" didn't work, but I'm happy with this
>solution.
>
Looking at man smb.conf it seems %g is the group of %u, and when it's
talking about include it says you can't use the %u variable substitution, I
guess this sorta implies that you can't use the %g variable too, perhaps
this should be documented somewhere?


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