[jcifs] Incorrect return from SmbFile.getUncPath()

Michael B. Allen miallen at eskimo.com
Wed Nov 13 19:52:54 EST 2002


On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:07:28 -0600
dircha at bethel.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> >I am using jcifs-0.7.0b7.jar (and also found this error in 0b6).
> >
> >I use jcifs.smb.SmbFile.getUncPath() to create a corresponding java.io.File
> >object. The problem is that in the return value the share name is dropped.
> >
> >Given an SmbFile constructed with this string:
> >"smb://BG/SharedDocs/My Music/" where BG is a computer on the network,
> >
> >SmbFile.getUncPath() is returning "\\BG\My Music\".
> >
> >I believe the error is on line 689 of jcifs.smb.SmbFile.java in the
> >getUncPath0() method. The share name is extracted to the member "share", but
> >then the value assigned to the member "unc" begins at the '/' after the share
> >name. The incorrect value in "unc" is then returned to the caller (getUncPath()).
> >
> >--Chad Dirks
> 
> Apologies, I should have tried the suggested solution before posting. Apparently
> the purpose of getUntPath0() is different than I suspected, as making the
> previously suggested change broke several other methods in the class. If the
> behavior I described was incorrect, then I suspect that the same problem occurs
> elsewhere in the class where the value of the member "unc" is used. If someone
> can confirm that this behavior is incorrect, I will test additional methods.
> 
> At least for my immediate purposes however, the correct behavior can be had by
> changing line 706 of jcifs.smb.SmbFile in the getUncPath() method from:
> return "\\\\" + url.getHost() + getUncPath0()
> to:
> return "\\\\" + url.getHost() + '\\' + share + getUncPath0()

Fixed in 0.7.0b8. Thx.

> 
> --Chad Dirks
> 


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