[Samba] trouble with variable substitutions with samba 4.16

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Dec 12 18:20:34 UTC 2022



On 12/12/2022 17:32, Arnaud FLORENT via samba wrote:
> Dear list
> 
> 
> i face an issue related to variable substitutions since upgrade from 
> samba 4.13 to 4.16
> 
> 
> my smb.conf use "include = /etc/samba/%U.smb.conf"
> 
> this is usefull for example to add shares for only specific users.
> 
> 
> since my upgrade from samba 4.13 to samba 4.16, it is not working 
> anymore and i get
> 
> Can't find include file /etc/samba/.smb.conf in log.smbd
> 
> i did not find message related to change about variable substitutions.
> 
> 
> did i miss something?

Well, apart from 'useful' only having one 'l', no you don't seem to have 
missed anything ;-)

> 
> how can i keep using variable substitutions?

Open a bug report, this should still work.

Rowland



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