samba - Jul 2004 - .eml files rejected by samba

Hi List.

I have some weirdness here which I have no idea how to resolve. I have
been runing samba for the las two years on a suse 8.2 box with no
problem at all. Last week I had a file system failure and was forced to
rebuild. Rebuilt using SuSE 9.1 and SAMBA 2.28
When I started restoring data, I noticed that all files with .eml
extensions could not be written to disk.!?!? As an experriment, i
changed the extension to .bml and voila, no prob. 
User called me today with exactly that complaint. Trying to save email
in his home dir and samba won't accept .eml file extensions.

I can copy .eml from dir to dir on Linux but not when using samba.
Possible bug???


THnaks

Laurie

Laurie Strydom wrote:
>I have some weirdness here which I have no idea how to resolve. I have
>been runing samba for the las two years on a suse 8.2 box with no
>problem at all. Last week I had a file system failure and was forced to
>rebuild. Rebuilt using SuSE 9.1 and SAMBA 2.28
>When I started restoring data, I noticed that all files with .eml
>extensions could not be written to disk.!?!? As an experriment, i
>changed the extension to .bml and voila, no prob.
>User called me today with exactly that complaint. Trying to save email
>in his home dir and samba won't accept .eml file extensions.
>
>I can copy .eml from dir to dir on Linux but not when using samba.
>Possible bug???
No, default value of veto_files includes *.eml. This bit me as well - 
in our case we couldn't figure out why we couldn't copy riched20.dll 
to the server.

Simon

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