[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#416185: Bug#416185: samba-common: net rpc share causes segfault when invoked with -l parameter on windows hosts

[Tommaso Colombo]

Ok, yesterday I rebuilt the samba source packages editing the
debian/rules file just like you suggested and tried to track down the
bug.
What I discovered was that the net command segfaults when trying to
print the share type description, because the index used to access the
array holding the description texts is 0x80000003 instead of
0x00000003. It seemed like the sign bit was incorrectly set.

Anyway, after some time spent looking for the cause of the problem and
not finding it because of my absolute lack of knowledge about Samba, I
realized that this problem isn't Debian-specific. In fact, I
downloaded and compiled Samba 3.0.24 from samba.org and it was
affected by this bug too. The bug appears to be fixed in Samba 3.0.25a
from unstable,

I'm sorry if I have bothered you, but this Debian bug report matched
my situation so closely that I didn't even think that it could have
been an upstream bug.

Regards,
Tommaso