Samba Problems

[Boorman Tim]

I've no idea why anyone would want to create a file called * either; one
of our developers 'discovered' this problem. Other wildcard characters
can also cause problems; if a directory on the UNIX machine contains
files named test1, test2 and test?, deleting the file test? using
Windows Explorer causes the 3 files to be deleted.

Regards,
	Tim

> Tim Boorman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Darrin M. Gorski [SMTP:dgorski at ford.com]
> Sent:	24 September 1997 20:14
> To:	Boorman Tim
> Cc:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: Samba Problems
> 
> 
> I'm curious; why on earth would anyone/anything create a file called
> '*'?
> 
> I've seen this question before, but I've not figured out if people are
> trying to bulletproof a system, or if they actually get files called
> '*'?
> 
> From DOS (Win-whatever) if you 'del *', only files without a '.' in
> them
> would be removed, so it sounds to me like Samba is expanding the
> wildcard, not DOS.
> 
> If this is the case, would one need to be concerned with other wilcard
> characters?
> 
> Would a file called '`ls -d /`*' remove all of the files in the root?
>