samba - Oct 2001 - unknown %a [was Re: Shares disappear in Windows 2000 (Samba 2 .2.1a)]

Hi,
>> > > include=smb.conf.public.%a was changed to
>> > > include=smb.conf.public.UNKNOWN
>> >                           ^^^^^^^
>> > What client os was this from?
>>
>> This wasn't put there by a client. My samba server somehow changed
my
>> smb.conf file without asking me. I don't want to track this down
right
>> now but maybe it was done by testparms, or maybe by SWAT. Joel
>
> OK.  What you are saying doesn't make sense to me.
> Can you please give me some mroe details?  Was the actual
> smb.conf modified on disk?  Or did testparm output report
> this as "include = smb.conf.public.UNKNOWN"?  The latter
> would make sense as there is no client operating system
> when checking smb.conf with testparm.
I don't use the %a
in the smb.conf I have the following entry:
include = smb.conf.%U what should be to:
include = smb.conf.anna if User:anna connects to the Samba-Server.

Dietrich Heise