On 12/09/08 13:57, Karl wrote:
> Mount -F smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sharename mntpoint
> 
> Where the machinename is an XP machine with all updates applied.

Sounds like an smbfs bug.  Feel free to file a CR against
solaris -> network -> smbfs on bugs.opensolaris.org

Alan

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>> Alan M Wright
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:47 PM
>> To: Karl
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS stumblings
>>
>> 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
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