Bug 497250

Summary: brocken interpreter %a for Win2K3 R2
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Andrey <afletdinov>
Component: sambaAssignee: Guenther Deschner <gdeschner>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 5.3CC: dpal, gdeschner
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrey 2009-04-23 00:35:00 UTC 
Description of problem:

I use two servers Win2k3 (Rus) and Win2k3 R2 (Rus) with latest updates.

if you use it:
[netlogon]
path = /samba/netlogon/%a

Win2k3 open folder /samba/netlogon/Win2k3
Win2K3 R2 always open folder /samba/netlogon/Win2K

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5

How reproducible:
with previous versions was the same.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use %a parameter in smb.conf
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Andrey 2010-02-18 00:28:26 UTC 
I also checked the version samba3-3.2.14-40.el5 and samba3-3.4.5-42.el5 (from ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/experimental).
Same error. See screenshots.
Comment 2 Andrey 2010-02-18 00:30:42 UTC 
Created attachment 394852 [details]
Win2K3 R2
Comment 3 Andrey 2010-02-18 00:31:04 UTC 
Created attachment 394853 [details]
Win2K3
Comment 4 Dmitri Pal 2010-05-17 14:44:08 UTC 
There macro is not reliable. There is no plan to fix until the upstream finds a better way to deal with %a macro.