CIFS move request failing

[Michael B Allen]

SMB_COM_MOVE does not work. SMB_COM_COPY doesn't work either [1]. As a
general rule, you want to take a capture of a MS client (preferrably
Windows 2000 or above) doing whatever operation you want and then
emulate that.

There are a number of inaccuracies in the cifs draft documents. At this
point the cifs drafts are pretty useless (don't even get me started
about the "Technical reference" document). At this point, Ethereal is
all you should be using.

Mike

[1] Obviously some of these commands worked at one time and they may
still work if the planets are aligned correctly (e.g. use ASCII and
limit behavior to that of some specific client like OS2). But in general,
don't do anyting MS doesn't do.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:00:17 -0700
"Murali Bashyam" <mbcoder at gmail.com> wrote:

> SMB_COM_RENAME requires that the new (target) file not exist, which does not
> work for this situation unless we explicitly delete that file using
> SMB_COM_DELETE. I thought SMB_COM_MOVE is the command to be used by a client
> to perform a SMB_COM_RENAME and  SMB_COM_DELETE together in an atomic
> fashion, correct me if am wrong.
> 
> Murali
> 
> On 9/29/06, Michael B Allen <mba2000 at ioplex.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:59:43 -0700
> > "Murali Bashyam" <mbcoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to get a windows server to move a file atomically using the
> > CIFS
> > > move file request, and from some strange reason, the server keeps
> > returning
> > > a status of object path name not found even though the old file is
> > there,
> > > and has all the right permissions to do this. Has anyone seen this
> > before,
> > > what may be causing this behaviour?
> >
> > I'm not clear at all about what you're doing but if you are trying to
> > use the SMB_COM_MOVE command I do not believe it works in any practical
> > way and more important it has not been observed in the wild. Use
> > SMB_COM_RENAME instead.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael B Allen
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> >
> 


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