Samba usershares in lower-case

Bug #222734 reported by IceWil
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
samba
Fix Released
Medium
samba (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Samba usershares created with Nautilus are in lower-case.

Steps to reproduce :

1 - Right-click on a folder ("My Shared Folder" for example) and share it with Samba
2 - Go to smb://localhost/ in Nautilus
3 - See that "My Shared Folder" becomes "my shared folder"

Hardy Heron (64-bit)

IceWil (icewil)
description: updated
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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

I'm reassigning this to samba, because this is a bug of the 'net' utility, not nautilus-share.

affects: nautilus-share (Ubuntu) → samba (Ubuntu)
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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote :

Reproduced on Jaunty:

$ net usershare add "My Shared Folder" "/home/user/My Shared Folder"
$ net usershare list
my shared folder

Workaround:
$ mv "/var/lib/samba/usershares/my shared folder" "/var/lib/samba/usershares/My Shared Folder"
$ net usershare list
My Shared Folder

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote :

This is apparently done by design (sharename = strdup_lower(argv[0]) in net_usershare.c), so we cannot change it on our side without introducing a behavior change with upstream. I'd suggest to bring this up on Samba bugzilla if you want to convince them to change how this tool should behave ?
See https://bugzilla.samba.org

Changed in samba:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Jeremy Allison (jra-samba) wrote :

The reason the sharename is lowercased is so we can tell immediately if another usershare exists using a case-variant of the same name (SMB shares are case insensitive). In order to fix this (it's not an issue in the server code as far as I can see) the usershare creation code would have to scan the entire directory to look for case-differing versions of the new sharename, and replace them if needed.

Jeremy.

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Jeremy Allison (jra-samba) wrote :

I have a fix for this I'm planning to add into 3.6.0. Can't go in earlier as it's going to need an upgrade to the on-disk format of the share security tdb.
I'll update this bug once the new code has been tested.

Thanks !

Jeremy.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote :

Thanks Jeremy !

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Jeremy Allison (jra-samba) wrote :

I have fixed this in the upstream tree (see the patch added to Samba bug #7240). Please test the Samba master git branch (as this will become 3.6.0) to ensure it works with nautilus share.

Jeremy.

Changed in samba:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in samba:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in samba:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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