Quoting Andres Cimmarusti ([email protected]): > Package: smbclient > Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-1 > Severity: important > > When I mount a samba share using the "connect to server" icon in the > gnome-menus, I am able to browse, delete and even get files from the remote > server, but when I try copying it fails consistently with the error: "Invalid > argument" > > This is a well known bug in the samba 3.4.x that reappeared in 3.5.x. > Fortunately it has been fixed upstream: > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7791 > But it will only appear in version 3.5.7 of samba which still hasn't been > released. Please backport this fix, as this problem is very annoying, it > renders samba unusable to me and many others as reported here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/393012 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598620 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633937 > > Ubuntu 10.10 has already patched their version of samba
Yes, I was following that story through Launchpad bugs. I was indeed expecting 3.5.7 to come out before the hard freeze. As it is less and less likely to happen (seeing no signs of preparation in the Samba Team mailing lists, probably because the Samba release manager is busy with real life), I will probably consider including that fix. I'm still hoping to be able to convince Debian RMs to accept 3.5.7 if it comes out before the full hard freeze of squeeze, but that's not something we can really deeply rely upon.
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