Re: Spam:Re: Spam:Re: File copying problem

[Stefan Vorkoetter <svorkoetter at maplesoft dot com>]

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?

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Stefan Vorkoetter
Maplesoft

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