[Samba] [LONG] Word 95 behaves strange in file dialog

[Peter Schaefer]

On 30.05.2004 22:29, Peter Schaefer wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm having problems with Word 95 (yes, we still use Office 95) running
> on W2K SP4. Samba is 3.0.4 running on Debian Testing (package from 
> unstable).
> However, the problem appeared with 3.0.2a also and 3.0.5 didn't fix this.
> It was definitely not there with Samba 2.x versions.
> 
> W2K and Office95 are both German versions.
> 
> Behaviour:
> ----------
> 
> In Word, open the "File Open" dialog. It will present the "C:\" folder.
> However, the default location that is expected to be shown is on a
> mapped network drive ("H:\Documents").
> 
> Clicking on the "H:" drive folder within the selection box drops
> back to "C:\" immediately, without error.
> 
> Ok, now close the file dialog, open the "Options" dialog and select
> the tab where you can set the default documents and template paths.
> When you open an folder selection dialog by the "Change..."-button
> you get a "Access denied error" as soon as a network drive is
> selected (regardless which one).
> 
> Logging during this time with log level 3 gets the following into
> log.smbd:
> 
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(890)
>   Transaction 8701 of length 92
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(685)
>   switch message SMBntcreateX (pid 4474)
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] passdb/lookup_sid.c:fetch_sid_from_uid_cache(152)
>   fetch sid from uid cache 1000 -> 
> S-1-5-21-522452230-244634628-243641563-3000
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] passdb/lookup_sid.c:fetch_sid_from_gid_cache(226)
>   fetch sid from gid cache 102 -> 
> S-1-5-21-522452230-244634628-243641563-513
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] passdb/lookup_sid.c:fetch_sid_from_gid_cache(226)
>   fetch sid from gid cache 102 -> 
> S-1-5-21-522452230-244634628-243641563-513
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] passdb/lookup_sid.c:fetch_sid_from_gid_cache(226)
>   fetch sid from gid cache 103 -> 
> S-1-5-21-522452230-244634628-243641563-512
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] passdb/lookup_sid.c:fetch_sid_from_gid_cache(226)
>   fetch sid from gid cache 1000 -> 
> S-1-5-21-522452230-244634628-243641563-3001
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288)
>   setting sec ctx (1000, 102) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] smbd/open.c:open_directory(1356)
>   open_directory: unable to stat name = .. Error was Erfolg
> [2004/05/30 14:18:51, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(118)
>   error packet at smbd/trans2.c(2222) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) 
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
> So, what looks weird for me is "Error was *Erfolg*" because this partially
> German wording translates to "Error was *Success*". WTF?
> 
> The icing
> ---------
> 
> All this happens only to a few users and only if Word is started using
> the Office95 quick launch bar. If Word is started via the start menu
> or directly in explorer by double-clicking the executable all is ok...
> Of course the said network drives are all reachable via Windows Explorer
> and within a command prompt.
> 
> I'm aware of possible UNC path problems, but even hiding the network
> neighbourhood and editing the registry to change the UNC paths to
> mapped drives representation didn't help...
> 
> So, i'm at the end of my capabilities; i just want to be sure that
> no bigger problem lures here, waiting to bite me later (in other
> applications that word).

So, ok, replying to myself and referring to

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&
  frame=right&th=41b0ffcb61810f73&
  seekm=1XxUd-67p-39%40gated-at.bofh.it#link2 :

This is a known issue (bug 1345) and has been fixed in
the patchset at

http://samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.4/samba-3.0.4.patch

FWIW.

Regards,

  Peter