[Samba] Weird usershares attempted use

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:19:37 +0000
Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:02:11 +0000
> Stephen Brandli <steve at brandli.com> wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I added that and the errors stopped.  I was hoping that this
> > was a symptom of my bigger problems, but it wasn't.
> > 
> > 	Steve
> 
> 
> Sometime between Samba 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 the default for 'usershare max
> shares' was changed from '0' to '100' and as the debug level is to
> '0', it appears that any request for a usershare to a server that
> isn't using usershares will get that error messages.
> 
> Rowland
> 

OK, after a bit of investigation, I now believe this is a bug, but not a
Samba bug.

If you read the Debian Samba package changelog, you will find this:

  * smb.conf: Fix "usershare max shares" default (patched to 100
    instead of 0)

So, Michael, would you like to patch it back again, it was set to '0'
for a reason.

If the server is going to allow usershares, it should be up to whomever
sets up the Samba server to set the maximum usershares shares.

Rowland