Samba still buggy

[Fintan]

I just recieved this from launchpad:

For good order: I noticed Samba (and friends) 3.0.24-2ubuntu1.1 slipping
into Feisty yesterday (coming from 3.0.24-2ubuntu1) and can confirm that
the problem still exists in this update.

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You can read the full topic here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...mba/+bug/95460

when are we going to see this fixed??

[penguin.ch]

Re: Samba still buggy

Interestingly enough, the very same stuff (Samba 3.0.24) works flawlessly on an "untainted", plain Debian 4.0 / KDE 3.5.6 system ... go figure :P

[Detonate]

Re: Samba still buggy

Also interesting, is that this bug does not affect all samba users. I have never had the problem. Everything works. The only thing is, I have never changed any settings on my shared folders under the "Advanced" tab.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Samba still buggy

Also interesting, is that this bug does not affect all samba users.

As far as I can tell from "playing off" Kubuntu 07.04 against plain Debian 4.0, the bug is directly related to Kubuntu's own "System Settings" - for neither working with KDE's own Control Center nor, as I'm used to do it, "nano-ing" configurations has made the bug in question (re-) appear on any of my systems so far.

[all4linux]

Re: Samba still buggy

I have always been under the impression that Samba is Samba, whether it's run on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xandros, Debian, Damn Small Linux, or whatever other distribution you can think of. It's a mature program that has been working flawlessly for many years. Am I wrong about this? Is the version that's included in Feisty Fawn different from the version that was included in Edgy?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Samba still buggy

Samba is Samba

Yes and no ... as, from my experience, core Samba is indeed behaving well - as long as you stay away from "helper tools" (in particular those "improved" by the (K)Ubunties ...).

[Fintan]

Re: Samba still buggy

You can read more here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137577

Lets start voting for this bug

[Detonate]

Re: Samba still buggy

Lets start voting for this bug

Done

[Fintan]

Re: Samba still buggy

Well...this says a bit as well:
You're right, KDE should be blamed for misconfiguring samba.

But samba should kindfully ignore OBVIOUS misconfiguration!
(Or would "no" ever be judged a valid network path to a CIFS share?)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...mba/+bug/95460

[javierrivera]

Re: Samba still buggy

Well... you can have a computer called "no", can't you ? .

Just joking.

Javier.

[Fintan]

Re: Samba still buggy

Sure

[penguin.ch]

Re: Samba still buggy

you can have a computer called "no"

... thus turning a bug into a feature "ASAP" ... neat