[CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP

Wed Aug 1 15:13:02 UTC 2012
Andreas Rogge <a.rogge at solvention.de>

Am 01.08.2012 09:39, schrieb Paul R. Ganci:
> The samba/linux user that successfully logged in is snichols. Does
> anybody have a clue as to why %u is not evaluating to the linux username
> snichols and is getting treated simply as the string %u? I am sure it is
> something to stupid, but damn if I can see it.
>
The stage at which %u needs to be evaluated in this case is before the 
user authentication happens.
You have to use %U instead of %u - this is not a security issue as 
having the wrong UNC path should (and probably will) be caught using ACLs.

Regards,
Andreas
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