[Samba] Samba and XP share drive bug error

[Andrew Bartlett]

Marcel Kunath wrote:
> 
> I reported about this in December when it seemed I was the first one who
> stumbled across this. I written the developers twice about it by now and it is
> still not fixed. Now it is kind of annoying since I get a bunch of people email
> me every week asking the same question again and again.

What are you proposing as the fix?  Can you include a patch?

> If you use XP and Samba and veto files in smb.conf then you must use
> 
> veto files = /.?*/
> 
> and not
> 
> veto files = /.*/
> 
> to avoid this error on the client side:

There are many ways to configure samba to make it inoperable, but we
should at least document it.  A patch for the docbook sources would go
down nicely.

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net