Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/07/28/11:46:18
On Mon, July 28, 2008 13:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 28 12:52, Sam Nelson wrote:
>> Our main fileserver is Solaris running TotalNet Advanced Server (TAS),
>> which is `Samba-like, but not Samba' from the Windows PoV at least. In
>
> Means what?
I mean from the `user experience' or `look&feel' angle.
> You need to debug this further for a solution. What you should
> do:
>
> - Fetch the source code of a small test application called GetVolInfo
> from http://cygwin.de/GetVolInfo.c
> Build it with `gcc -g -o GetVolInfo GetVolInfo.c -lntdll'
> and run it like this: `./GetVolInfo /cygdrive/h'. Paste the output
> in a reply to this mail.
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$ ./GetVolInfo /cygdrive/h
Device Type : 7
Characteristics : 10
FileFsObjectIdInformation failed, c000000d
Volume Name : <?>
Serial Number : 0
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname : <UNIXFS>
Flags : 400f
FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE
FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE
FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE
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
FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE
FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE
$
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> - Build the latest Cygwin 1.5.25 from source
>
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
I never tried that before. I can give it a shot, I guess.
> The idea is to get the exact status codes.
I can see that.
> Both of the above actions allow us to find a workaround which might
> find its way into the upcoming Cygwin release 1.7. However, if TAS
> is is behaving like really old versions of Samba, I can't promise we
> will support it.
Assuming the above GetVolInfo output doesn't answer the issue one way or
the other, then, I guess I get back when I've done that. I'm no fan of
Samba, and I have MacOS to support with AFP from the same server, so I'm
not about to throw TAS away.
Thanks,
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