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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
