[Samba] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name) after upgrade

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:55:42PM +0100, Moray Henderson (ICT) wrote:
> After upgrading from samba3-3.3.10-40.el5.i386.rpm to 
> samba3-3.4.7-42.el5.i386.rpm, I'm seeing a lot of
> 
> [2010/05/05 11:06:42,  1] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name)
>   reduce_name: couldn't get realpath for addrbook/CVS
> [2010/05/05 11:06:42,  1] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name)
>   reduce_name: couldn't get realpath for beta/CVS
> [2010/05/05 11:06:42,  1] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name)
>   reduce_name: couldn't get realpath for buildproj/CVS
> ...
> 
> messages in log.smbd (and in the logwatch reports).  Is that expected in
> 3.4.7?  It didn't happen in 3.3, so what has changed?

It's logged when the VFS realpath call gets an access denied
message. It's caused by a debuglevel being too low.

See bug 7409 for the simple fix.

Jeremy.