samba rename bug

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 08:39 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:29 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> >> Back in March I created this bug report: 
> >> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6173
> >>
> >> That was on samba-3.0.33, which is the current version on CentOS5. I was 
> >> notified today that 3.0 is no longer under maintenance. As it turns out, 
> >> 3.2.x (the version in FC10) is also out of maintenance. The current 
> >> stable release of samba is 3.4.0, released 7/3/09. FC11 is on 3.3.x. I'm 
> >> getting a clear picture of who's the tortoise and who's the hare. ;) I 
> >> expect that FC12 will have samba-3.4.x.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I'm wondering if by chance anyone's running 3.3 or 3.4 and can 
> >> verify whether this bug still exists or not. If it does, I had a patch 
> >> for the 3.0 source that I'll look into reworking and submitting to the 
> >> 3.4 (preferrably) or 3.3 branch.
> >>
> >> The bug is really easy to test. See the bug report. I just don't have a 
> >> recent version of samba operational yet, and don't want to waste any 
> >> time on it if the bug's been fixed.
> > ----
> > I'm pretty sure that sernet.de has rpm's for RHEL/CentOS v5 (Volker is
> > Sernet.de) that you can install without too much effort but yes, RHEL 5
> > is still backporting security patches only to 3.0.33. Didn't that patch
> > come from Volker?
> 
> I've no idea where 3.0.33 came from.
> Thanks for the Volker reference. Have you used his packages at all? His 
> site looks pretty professional, so I probably shouldn't be concerned.
> 
> Now all I need to do is figure out how to migrate from 3.0 to 3.3 
> smoothly. Any insight?
> 
> > No, I've not installed any version other than Fedora 10/11 and
> > RHEL/CentOS versions to test
> 
> Do you have 3.3 on FC11 you can do a test with? It's really simple. On a 
> windows machine with N: (or whatever drive) mapped to a samba share, 
> open a command prompt and execute the following commands:
> N:\>echo test > testfile
> N:\>attrib +r testfile
> N:\>attrib testfile
> A    R     N:\testfile
> N:\>ren testfile testren
> Access is denied.
> 
> If you don't get the last reply, then the bug's fixed. If you get the 
> denied message, then the bug lives on.
----
I don't have time, I am leaving for China today. My F11 is only a laptop
and not a server...sorry

Volker is one of the samba team members

Craig


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