[Samba] libICU 7.1 update to 14.6 build - [homes] no longer visible from iPhone Files app (IOS 14.8.1)

[David C. Rankin]

All,

  This is a strange issue. 14.6 standalone, IOS 14.8.1 Files app. A few months
back I had to add:

vfs object = fruit streams_xattr

to the global section of smb.conf to restore iPhone Files app transfer to my
samba server (Archlinux).

  The [homes] section of smb.conf continued to work, However, it just stopped
working on 14.6 package update from Arch due to the libICU 7.1 updates.

  I can set the share browseable and it now shows as "homes" instead of
"david" in the iPhone Files app share list. In other words, the special nature
of [homes] is lost.

  I don't see how libICU changes could bork the [homes] share, but following
install of the updated package [homes] ("david" me) stopped showing completely
in the Files app share list. There is no way to manually map the individual
shares -- the Files app relies on it just working as [homes] always has with
"browseable = no".

  Has this been seen by anyone else? If so, is there a fix or workaround for this?



(p.s. sorry for the hiatus - Suddenlink, my sorry ISP, due to an unexplaned
block-list configuration on their end started blocking all mail for
lists.samba.org, and the archlinux and opensuse lists over a year ago - and
there is no one competent left there to fix the issue.... I'm having to use
gmail to get the list now)

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.