samba - Sep 2008 - XP cannot read files after upgrade to Debian Samba 3.2.3

Hello,
I have to debian lenny servers serving SAMBA shared folders to XP SP3 clients.
One server is running samba 3.2.3, the other 3.0.24.

On one of the shares there is a folder which contains email message files with
names
like:

1164373321.H21047P2656.mail.domain.com:1Gnagg-0000gi-0p 


On the 3.2.3 samba server:
>From XP I can browse the folder containing that file, but if I try to copy
the file itself I get "Cannot read from source disk" windows error.
I can however copy the folder that contains the file.

On the 3.0.24 samba server:
>From XP I can browse the folder and copy the file itself as well as the
folder
containing the file.

I've done some additional tests, if I remove the colon ":" from
the file name,
the problem disappears.


Could you please advise what would be the reason for 3.2.3 not allowing
XP clients to copy files containing colons and 3.0.24 would?



I'm using the default smb.conf with one additional section:

  [MailBackup]
  comment = MailBackup
  writable = no
  locking = no
  path = /wwmail
  public = no
  guest ok = no
  valid users = mailusers




Thank you.


Regards,
Veselin

On 9/9/2008, Veselin Kantsev (veselin@campbell-lange.net)
wrote:
> On the 3.2.3 samba server:
> >From XP I can browse the folder containing that file, but if I try to
copy
> the file itself I get "Cannot read from source disk" windows
error.
> I can however copy the folder that contains the file.
Windows doesn't allow filenames with ':' in them - maybe that is
why?

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:16:39PM +0100, Veselin Kantsev
wrote:
> Hello,
> I have to debian lenny servers serving SAMBA shared folders to XP SP3
clients.
> One server is running samba 3.2.3, the other 3.0.24.
> 
> On one of the shares there is a folder which contains email message files
with names
> like:
> 
> 1164373321.H21047P2656.mail.domain.com:1Gnagg-0000gi-0p 
> 
> 
> On the 3.2.3 samba server:
> >From XP I can browse the folder containing that file, but if I try to
copy
> the file itself I get "Cannot read from source disk" windows
error.
> I can however copy the folder that contains the file.
Samba 3.2.x is probably interpreting this as a alternate data
stream. I'll look into this.

Jeremy.