[jcifs] Copying Files

[Rob Wygand]

Chris,

I guess I wasn't clear enough... I understand that if I am copying 
across machines that, yes, the network needs to be the bridge. I was 
actually only talking about copying within a share. As an example,
say that //foo/bar is a machine and I want to copy everything in 
//foo/bar/stuff/rob to //foo/bar/otherstuff/misc.

I'll talk a look at SMB_COM_COPY...

rjw

Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:03:40PM -0700, Rob Wygand wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Am I right in deducing that the only way to copy a file on a CIFS share 
>>when using JCIFS is to open two SMBI/OStream's and copy the file byte by 
>>byte from location a to location b?
>>
> 
> If you are copying from one share to another share, yes.  If you are
> copying to a local file, then you should only need the one share.
> 
> 
>>Does this mean that whenever I do such a copy that every byte of file a 
>>is schlepped across to my machine then schlepped back to the remote 
>>machine in the new location?
>>
> 
> How else would you expect this to work?  If you wanted to copy a file from
> machine A to machine B you would need a direct connection between A and
> B.  If you are on machine C, then the only way to establish a direct
> connection between A and B is to somehow force one of those machines to
> open such a connection with the other.
> 
> On a Unix system, you could log on to machine A, and then open the
> connection directly to machine B.  If you can't do that (or equivalent)
> then you need to pass the packets through machine C.  A good reason to
> have full-duplex on your etherswitch.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
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