[Samba] .eml files rejected by samba

[Simon Hobson]

Laurie Strydom wrote:

>I have some weirdness here which I have no idea how to resolve. I have
>been runing samba for the las two years on a suse 8.2 box with no
>problem at all. Last week I had a file system failure and was forced to
>rebuild. Rebuilt using SuSE 9.1 and SAMBA 2.28
>When I started restoring data, I noticed that all files with .eml
>extensions could not be written to disk.!?!? As an experriment, i
>changed the extension to .bml and voila, no prob.
>User called me today with exactly that complaint. Trying to save email
>in his home dir and samba won't accept .eml file extensions.
>
>I can copy .eml from dir to dir on Linux but not when using samba.
>Possible bug???

No, default value of veto_files includes *.eml. This bit me as well - 
in our case we couldn't figure out why we couldn't copy riched20.dll 
to the server.

Simon

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