From: glen mccready 
  To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:18:02 -0400

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 14:05:01 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: It doesn't disappear!

Forwarded-by: Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>

Samba is a free unix-based SMB server for windows-for-workgroups/
LANManager style networks, developed by the author of the forwarded
message.

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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:32:07 +1000
From: "Andrew.Tridgell" <tridge@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
To: samba@anugpo.anu.edu.au
Subject: cute win95 bug

I thought people would appreciate this cute little bug in win95. 

I create a file called "\\server\c\*.*" on a Samba drive.  Note I
mean the filename literally, including all the \ and * chars directly
in the filename.  Say I put this file in /tmp on the unix box.

The administrator then comes along with win95 and sees the weird
filenames. He thinks "I better delete these". He starts win95
"Explorer", or "My Computer" or "File manager" or whatever.  He clicks
on the file and says to delete it. It doesn't disappear!  Then he
notices he's deleted everything on the C drive of \\server and has a
heart attack.

Cute bug :-)

Andrew

PS: You can do the same thing with filenames like "c:\*.*"

PPS: yes, I have reported this to Microsoft.