[jcifs] DFS Questions

[Michael B Allen]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:55:37 -0500
Jake Goulding <goulding at vivisimo.com> wrote:

> Michael B Allen wrote:
> >> I have a user who is trying to access files on a DFS mount. As I 
> >> understand it, this is a large organization and the user directories for 
> >> everyone are stored on a DFS share. They are doing a little test of a 
> >> directory with 4 files in it. Sometimes the directory will list, 
> >> sometimes not. Sometimes a file will be retrieved correctly, most times not.
> >>     
> >
> > "sometimes" is a dirty word. Unfortunately you need to identify the
> > pattern more clearly. Is it occurring on the first request and then not
> > on subsequent requests on the same connection?
> >
> > Do you have access to the customer's network? Can you devise an example
> > program that they can run to more clearly demonstrate the problem?
> >
> >   
> I was hoping that someone else had a similar problem and could point me 
> to the solution. ;-)
> 
> I had each file individually tested, and each works when retrieved by 
> itself. However, when getting the whole directory, the directory was 
> listed and only one file was retrieved. I'd say that it working once and 
> then not a second time would be a pretty good summation of the problem. 
> Is this a known issue?

That sounds like it could be a path handling issue. Make triple sure
that you are using 1.2.13. There were fixes for DFS path handling in
the latest release.

Mike

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