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. ------------------------------------------------------------ $ ./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 $ ------------------------------------------------------------ > - 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, -- SAm. -- Academic Excellence at the Heart of Scotland. The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
