unknown %a [was Re: Shares disappear in Windows 2000 (Samba 2.2.1a)]

[Joel Hammer]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:35:56PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:16:11PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > 
> > > include=smb.conf.public.%a was changed to
> > > include=smb.conf.public.UNKNOWN
> >                           ^^^^^^^
> > What client os was this from?
> 
> This wasn't put there by a client. My samba server somehow changed my
> smb.conf file without asking me. I don't want to track this down right now
> but maybe it was done by testparms, or maybe by SWAT.
> Joel

The culprit for this is SWAT. Saving your changes with SWAT will do this.
This must be a bug, not a feature.
Joel