samba 2.0.7: option mangled names = no will chrash nt client !

Peter Samuelson peter at cadcamlab.org
Sun Jul 2 10:44:43 GMT 2000 

  [Klaus Troeger <klaus.troeger at de.origin-it.com>]
> > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">

*Please* don't do that, lest I reply in nroff. (:

> > our customers have directory names with several : in the names
> > (created on unix).
[...]
> > If i switch off mangling on the samba server, i could see the
> > directory correctly, could go into it, could also see the file (even
> > with :) and after 5 seconds the nt client crashes with blue screen.
> > Test on on nt with service pack 3 and on one with service pack 5

Sorry, but I happen to find that really funny.

Here's a good summary of that class of bug.  Luke Leighton wrote this
on samba-ntdom a couple months ago:

|   *sigh*.  no, it's a client-side bug.  no client-side bugs have been
|   fixed in nt4.
|   
|   it's not considered worthwhile, by microsoft.
|   
|   after all, what would you be doing putting third party servers on
|   your network?


[Andrew Langton <andrewl at babcockbrown.com>]
> We have had a similar problem - in our case it was files with / in
> the file name - they were created by Macs before we migrated to PCs.
> The NT systems didn't crash, but they couldn't open the files at all.

Whoa there.  How on earth did you get those files onto the Unix system
in the first place?  '/' is one of the two illegal characters in Unix
filenames (the other being '\0').

Peter

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