Package: samba
Version: 3.0.24-2
Severity: normal
If there is a share whose name is the same as the name of a directory on
that share (it seems that this is not case sensitive), when you access the
directory weird things happen, like finding directories that don't exist.
I have tested this with latest 2.6 kernel cifs up to 2.6.20.1 running etch
with the samba servers running etch and sid, this doesn't happen if the
server is a sarge based samba, and it only happens with cifs, not with
smbfs, so maybe it is not something wrong with samba but with the cifs
filesystem driver, with the old samba on sarge it doesn't happen, so I
don't know if it is samba's or cifs client's fault.
I think the best way to explain the weird behaviour here is by an example:
I create a share on the samba server like this:
[deb]
comment = buggy stuff
writable = no
locking = no
path = /bug
public = yes
browseable = no
Inside the share I create a directory called deb, it could also be called
DEB and things would also work weird, even though I believe behaviour is a
little bit different. Inside the deb directory I create a file named other,
that's it. No other files or directories exist inside the share's directory.
ace:~# mount.cifs //pul/deb /mnt -o passwd=d
ace:~# ls -lR /mnt/
/mnt/:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:31 deb
/mnt/deb:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:00 other
ace:~# ls -lisa /mnt/deb/deb/deb/
total 0
60094 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:31 .
60089 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:32 ..
60123 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:00 other
ace:~# ls -lisa /mnt/deb/deb/
total 0
60089 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:32 .
60088 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:31 ..
60094 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:31 deb
ace:~# ls -lisa /mnt/deb/
total 0
60088 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:31 .
2 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:32 ..
60302 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-02-26 21:00 other
ace:~# if [ -d /mnt/deb/deb/deb ];then echo He thinks its a dir;fi
He thinks its a dir
ace:~# if [ -d /mnt/deb/deb ];then echo He thinks its a dir;fi
He thinks its a dir
ace:~# if [ -d /mnt/deb ];then echo He thinks its a dir;fi
He thinks its a dir
Don't know what else to add, if more info is needed just tell me and I'll
try to gather it.
Regards!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.32-1.1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 common error description library
ii libcupsy 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutl 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libkrb53 1.4.4-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam-m 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-r 0.79-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii logrotat 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii netbase 4.29 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
ii samba-co 3.0.24-2 Samba common files used by both th
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn smbldap-tools <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
samba/nmbd_from_inetd:
* samba/run_mode: daemons
samba/log_files_moved:
samba/tdbsam: false
* samba/generate_smbpasswd: false
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