[jcifs] Random problems connecting to DFS server

[Michael B Allen]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Nikhil Sahay <nikhilsahay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I was wanting to know if you are planning to release a fix for what is being
> talked about in this thread?
>
> We are facing a similar problem and have been fighting since many days now
> to implement a permanent solution. As our AD infrastructure at the same time
> is being migrated from Windows 2003 to 2008. After going through this thread
> we are certain that this would help us. Its just that we do not want to put
> the workaround by ourselves.
>
> Can you please let me know when a new version with this change be available?

Hi Nikhil,

I'm not absolutely positive I know what you're talking about but if
you're talking about walking through IPs for a DFS target to find a
node that has the desired object and generally be more robust about
finding objects in poorly maintained DFS volumes (eg not replicating
properly) then no, there are no plans to fix that. I don't think its
even on the TODO list. Almost half of the issues on the JCIFS TODO
list are directly or indirectly related to DFS so it's something that
needs to be really studied and re-factored. Meaning it's probably an
item for the infamous "2.0" release.

Mike

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