Spam:Re: Spam:Re: File copying problem

[Stefan Vorkoetter]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 30 09:38, Stefan Vorkoetter wrote:
>> Remote OS is SunOS titan 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
>>
>> Output of getvolinfo is:
>>
>> ~ [657] $ ./getvolinfo //titan/u-maple
>> rootdir: \\titan\u-maple\
>> Volume Name        : <u-maple>
>> Serial Number      : 77467987
>> Max Filenamelength : 255
>> Filesystemname     : <NTFS>
>> Flags:
>>  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
>>  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
>>  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : FALSE
>>  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : TRUE
>>  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : FALSE
>>  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : FALSE
>>  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
>>  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
>>  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
>>  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
>>  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : FALSE
>>  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : FALSE
>>  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : FALSE
>>  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
>>
>> Am looking into what version of samba this may be.
> 
> Probably a pretty old one.  Any chance you can update?  It seems
> that older Samba versions (or are these specific SunOS Samba
> versions?) don't return an unambiguous inode number to Windows.
> 
> That means, the above combination of flags identify your file
> system as Samba to Cygwin.  Recent Samba versions (at least on
> Linux) are known to return unambiguous inode numbers, so Cygwin
> utilizes the returned inode numbers.  Apparently your Samba
> is too old or somehow a branch from an older Smaba version.
> 
> Any chance you can upgrade to something more recent?  I'm a bit
> reluctant to change Cygwin so that this capability is lost to
> users of recent Samba versions...
> 
> 
> Corinna

I'll talk to our IT folks. Any idea why this problem doesn't happen with a 1.5.18 based cygwin?

-- 
Stefan Vorkoetter
Maplesoft

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