[Samba] "Duplicate workgroup names in browse list" problem reappeared in 3.0.5

Herb Lewis hlewis at panasas.com
Fri Jul 23 13:30:12 GMT 2004


Check out the announcements on samba.org. 3.0.5 is a security release that
contains only a security fix added to 3.0.4 base. What used to be 3.0.5-rc1
will now be called 3.0.6 and an rc2 will be released shortly.

Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> Starting from version 3.0.2 (or .3?) there were a misfeature that caused
> workgroup names to show up as duplicates in workstations' browse lists. Fix
> for this didn't reach into 3.0.5-pre1, but rc1 had this fixed.
> 
> Today I upgraded 3.0.5-rc1 to 3.0.5-2 (FC2 binary rpm from samba.org) and
> the problem reappeared.
> 
> To be more spesific, the problem appears when there are more that one
> workgroup in the network. In that case each of the workgroups appear as a
> correct one, and also as a secondary fake one that contains no computers and
> which has a name end-padded with blanks to appr. 15 characters. This problem
> was originally discussed here in May, and a patch was releases soon, AFAIK.
> Maybe this patch was dropped for some reason (eg. accidentally?) from the
> final 3.0.5 although it was there in 3.0.5-rc1?
> 
> 



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