samba - May 2003 - Ugly bug in Samba

Hi!

Probably I found a very ugly bug. I tried to delete a directory named 
'*' from a folder shared from a Linux server. The name of the directory 
shown in Windows was ~0%. When I deleted the file, ALL FILES IN FOLDER 
WHERE DELETED!!! (Except other directories.)
Than I got an error 'access denied'. The directory '*'
wasn't deleted.
When I tried to delete this directory once again, all went ok.

myserver:~# /usr/sbin/smbd -V
Version 2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian

C:\Windows>ver
Windows 95. [Version 4.00.1111]

(Windows 95OSR2)

Best,
Maciek

P.S. I know that I shouldn't have created the files with such strange 
names, but it was only the test. I wanted to know how Samba handles such 
names. And now I know. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maciej Huetter [mailto:mhuetter@abmsolid.com.pl]
> Probably I found a very ugly bug. I tried to delete a directory named 
> '*' from a folder shared from a Linux server. The name of the 
> directory 
> shown in Windows was ~0%. When I deleted the file, ALL FILES 
> IN FOLDER 
> WHERE DELETED!!! (Except other directories.)
> Than I got an error 'access denied'. The directory '*'
wasn't deleted.
> When I tried to delete this directory once again, all went ok.
I'm not sure this is necessarily a Samba bug.  "*" isn't a
legal Windows
filename so I wouldn't expect a Windows client to do anything remotely sane
when you try to delete it!