Bug 497250 - brocken interpreter %a for Win2K3 R2
Summary: brocken interpreter %a for Win2K3 R2
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: samba
Version: 5.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Guenther Deschner
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-23 00:35 UTC by Andrey
Modified: 2010-05-17 14:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-05-17 14:44:08 UTC
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Win2K3 R2 (11.14 KB, image/png)
2010-02-18 00:30 UTC, Andrey 		no flags Details
Win2K3 (8.66 KB, image/png)
2010-02-18 00:31 UTC, Andrey 		no flags Details
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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
2.
3.
  
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.
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