[Samba] Re: Odd problem with samba v.3.0.20b

[Andreas Oster]

Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:22 +0200, Thomas Bork wrote:
>> Andreas Oster wrote:
>>
>>> [2005/10/24 12:29:33, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(798)
>>>   novaws20 (10.2.1.71) couldn't find service aoste
>>> The last five messages are the relavant ones. The share mentioned
>>> (aoster) is the home share of user aoster. This not only happens with
>>> the home share but with all other configured shares. The last letter
>>> seems to truncated.
>>> Does anybody have a similar/same problem ?
>> This is a *long* standing bug in samba 3.0.x (in all versions I tried up 
>> to 3.0.21pre1). Sometimes the last character  of the services is 
>> truncate here too, but the server is nevertheless working properly:
>>
>> [2005/10/24 03:09:32, 0] smbd/server.c:main(805)
>>    smbd version 3.0.21pre1-01-for-eisfair started.
>> [...]
>> [2005/10/24 03:19:40.521307, 0, pid=11532] 
>> smbd/service.c:make_connection(802)
>>    tb3 (192.168.0.15) couldn't find service publi
>>
>> The service is named 'public' and not 'publi'.
> 
> The trouble is that we don't know where the string is being trucated.
> It is not as simple as 'in the tree connect', as ethereal shows the
> string to be already truncated.  It must be somewhere else, but it also
> appears non-fatal:  I've never heard of it actually breaking setups,
> just making noise.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
> 
Dear Andrew, dear Thomas,

thank you for your reply to my posting. Actually, the
server works without any problems, but because I did
not recognize this truncation error in the logs before
the update, I was afraid, that this could brake
something :)
So I am trying to not bother any more :)


best regards

Andreas