[jcifs] Problem with DFS

Rolf Breuning Rolf.Breuning at t-online.de
Wed Apr 14 09:13:46 GMT 2004


Hello,

I just started using jcifs 0.8-2 for access to a Win2000 / WinXP based 
company network.

I discovered problems when accessing files or directories on DFS drives. 
Please find attached a small class which allows to reproduce the problem 
using the length() method for a file. However, all methods, e.g. 
listFiles() etc. seem to suffer from this problem.

The attached class shows, that the DFS information is in principle 
correctly obtained. If I extract the DFS information I can easily build 
a new SmbFile which allows the access. However the sendTransaction() 
method seems not to be able to apply the DFS information correctely.

Special things:
- I do not use the global properties, the authentication is added to the 
smb:// string
- The resolved DFS reference points to the same server as originally 
accessed, but uses another share name:
  //server1/share1/dir1/dir2/   ->   //server1/share2/

Kind regards

  Rolf



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