On problem 2 - this is probably a client-side problem. The SMB client is probably using legacy SMB requests that cannot handle 64-bit offsets (similar to that Windows 2000 problem I mentioned).
How did you mount/map the share on the Solaris box? Alan -- On 12/09/08 13:30, Alan M Wright wrote: > On 12/23/+( 11:59, Karl wrote: >> I have been looking at using OpenSolaris 8.11 and have found a couple >> problems. >> >> Problem 1. >> >> Seem to have a problem copying a file that is a symlink to a vista >> machine. In the directory: >> >> /export/home/kstrauss/downloads/gnu/gcc/objDir42/i386-pc-solaris2.11/amd64/libstdc++-v3/include >> >> There is a linked file: >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 kstrauss staff 84 Jun 26 21:47 ios -> >> /export/home/kstrauss/downloads/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.2.0/libstdc++-v3/include/std/std_ios.h > > Yes, currently the CIFS server cannot process symlinks to absolute > paths. The service will not allow you to go above the share root > and an attempt to follow an absolute path violates that rule. We are > investigating ways to deal with this: > > 6705814 CIFS: full path symlinks for files within the same > share should be supported > >> when trying to access the file from a vista machine I get: >> >> C:\temp\sxc\solaris>type >> "s:\kstrauss\downloads\gnu\gcc\objDir42\i386-pc-solaris2.11\amd64\libstdc++-v3\include\ios" >> >> The system cannot find the file specified. >> >> Problem 2. >> >> Trouble working with files greater than 4gb. For example if I mount a >> share from an XP machine and do the following: >> >> Cat largefile > /dev/null >> >> This task runs forever. Looking through filemon on the XP machine the >> file offset being requested by the solaris box flips back over to 0. >> >> Are these known problems or is this because of my incompetence? If the >> latter some help would be much appreciated. > > This was a problem with the original release of Windows 2000 due to > the use of SMB requests that are limited to 32-bit offsets. It was > fixed in a service pack (IIRC, SP2). This may be something similar. > > We will investigate. > > Thanks, > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > cifs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
