Hello, I am using Samba 2.0.3 on my FreeBSD 2.2.7 box. Works fine. It is already running for a few months with a small amount of windows95 users and last week we decided to move all our userfiles from our SCO box with visionfs over to the Samba machine. No problems so far. But, strange files are appearing in the directorys of the NT40 workstation users. Under Unix they look like Ne00: or Ne01: or Ne04: and so on. The highest I have seen is Ne05: Once they are there the stay the same. If you look at them from the windows machine they look like Ne01~go. As far as I see they get written by the NT client (UID) and only if he looked in that directory from his machine. It is not nessesary to open a file. I am almost convince it is not a virus, we use Sophos with the latest updates and I do not see the files on the desktops. I loked on the SCO but I did not see them there as wel, only on the Samba machine. question: Did anybody see this before?? is it a Samba bug or a NT bug. Has it to do with very long filenames??? regards Robert Soen rsoen@nigtevecht.xs4all.nl
I've seen these kinds of files appear after printing to a network printer. My Desktop folder resides in-place on a Samba server and these files sometimes appear on the Desktop after printing to a network printer. Ne00: is the name of a network printer port. I do not know what causes this.> -----Original Message----- > From: samba@samba.org [mailto:samba@samba.org]On Behalf Of samba > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 1:49 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Strange files > > > Hello, > > I am using Samba 2.0.3 on my FreeBSD 2.2.7 box. > Works fine. > It is already running for a few months with a small amount of windows95 > users and last week we decided to move all our userfiles from our SCO box > with visionfs over to the Samba machine. > No problems so far. > But, strange files are appearing in the directorys of the NT40 workstation > users. > Under Unix they look like Ne00: or Ne01: or Ne04: and so on. > The highest I have seen is Ne05: > Once they are there the stay the same. > If you look at them from the windows machine they look like Ne01~go. > As far as I see they get written by the NT client (UID) and only if he > looked in that directory from his machine. > It is not nessesary to open a file. > I am almost convince it is not a virus, we use Sophos with the latest > updates and I do not see the files on the desktops. > I loked on the SCO but I did not see them there as wel, only on the Samba > machine. > > question: > Did anybody see this before?? is it a Samba bug or a NT bug. > Has it to do with very long filenames??? > > > regards Robert Soen > rsoen@nigtevecht.xs4all.nl >
Hello,
Welcome in the club.
It is a problem of Samba 2.0.2 and higher. I reported the problem already
in February (PR#13685) but no real solution till now. These files will only
be created when NT SMB SUPPORT is enabled in smb.conf.
Best regards,
Axel Neumann
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