diff --git a/source3/smbd/proto.h b/source3/smbd/proto.h
index 149abf9e589..72ee8e82fe5 100644
--- a/source3/smbd/proto.h
+++ b/source3/smbd/proto.h
@@ -933,7 +933,6 @@ bool disk_quotas(connection_struct *conn, struct smb_filename *fname,
 /* The following definitions come from smbd/reply.c  */
 
 NTSTATUS check_path_syntax(char *path);
-NTSTATUS check_path_syntax_wcard(char *path, bool *p_contains_wcard);
 NTSTATUS check_path_syntax_posix(char *path);
 size_t srvstr_get_path(TALLOC_CTX *ctx,
 			const char *inbuf,
diff --git a/source3/smbd/reply.c b/source3/smbd/reply.c
index 325196c6f13..e7771e2bc59 100644
--- a/source3/smbd/reply.c
+++ b/source3/smbd/reply.c
@@ -232,17 +232,6 @@ NTSTATUS check_path_syntax(char *path)
 	return check_path_syntax_internal(path, False, &ignore);
 }
 
-/****************************************************************************
- Ensure we check the path in *exactly* the same way as W2K for regular pathnames.
- Wildcards allowed - p_contains_wcard returns true if the last component contained
- a wildcard.
-****************************************************************************/
-
-NTSTATUS check_path_syntax_wcard(char *path, bool *p_contains_wcard)
-{
-	return check_path_syntax_internal(path, False, p_contains_wcard);
-}
-
 /****************************************************************************
  Check the path for a POSIX client.
  We're assuming here that '/' is not the second byte in any multibyte char