Package: samba
Version: 3.0.22-1
Severity: important

[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/%S.log

as described in Chapter 12 of the Using Samba guide to log for each service (share) simply creates /var/log/samba/%S.log litterally and doesnt parse it as a variable.
 
It is also stated in Chapter 6 table 6-8 pf the Using Samba guide that the log file string "Works with all variables."

which is directly inconsistant with Gerald Carter's reply to the post Francis Strickland had made about this issue back in january on lists.samba.org @ http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-January/115979.html

its outlined in the Using Samba document both on samba.org and in the samba-doc package in debian that this is suppose to work for creating seperate logs for each share instead of for each client machine. This should be considered a serious bug, but I have filed it as important because it doesnt affect usability for all users. However the bug makes the documentation invalid and for this reason it is every bit serious.

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