Comment 8 for bug 449735

Chuck, I don't know if I'm meant to reply to this but I just had to say how
impressed I am, you don't get this kind of service with Windows! (I have to
use it for work).

Using Karmic on a netbook mainly and it's a real pleasure to use.

Thanks, Steve H

2009/10/28 Chuck Short <email address hidden>

> Statement of Impact:
>
> Karmic shipped with a bug in samba that if the share name is more than
> 12 characters long then smbclient wont display it.
>
> How this bug has been addressed:
>
> This bug has been fixed by the upstream samba developers in
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6829. This patch has been
> accepted in Samba 3.4.3
>
> I have backported the patch to Samba 3.4.0. I have attached the patch to
> this bug.
>
> How to reproduce:
>
> 1. Install samba
> 2. Create two shares like the following in the /etc/samba/smb.conf:
>
> [test1]
> comment = test1
> read only = yes
> path = /tmp
> guest ok = yes
>
> [thisisareallyreallyreallylongshare]
> comment = thisisareallylongshare
> read only = yes
> path = /tmp
> guest ok = ye
>
> 3. Restart samba
> 4. Run the following command: smbclient -L localhost
> 5. The first share "test1" should be displayed in the output however the
> second one will not be.
>
> There should not be a regression from this patch. If you have any
> questions please let me know.
>
> Regards
> chuck
>
>
> ** Bug watch added: Samba Bugzilla #6829
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6829
>
> --
> [SRU] [karmic] Long SMB share names invisible and corrupts encodings
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449735
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>
> Status in Samba: Unknown
> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> Ubuntu release: 9.10beta (I have let all the updates since installing
> happen)
>
> Cannot see share name "stevesdocuments" on server "monster"
> (\\MONSTER\stevesdocuments)
>
> Other shares are visible, i.e. "users", "websites", etc.
>
> The server is a linux (SUSE 10) machine running SAMBA.
>
> The share is visible on Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and Windows Vista.
>
> The share is accessible when putting full path in address bar
> ("\\MONSTER\stevesdocuments")
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Oct 12 18:48:06 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
> Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu5
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
> SourcePackage: nautilus
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
>

--
Steve Hardy

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