Re: File compatibility issues with LAN drive

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Greg Neill wrote:
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Data doesn't get corrupted. Even super-large files are perfectly ok.
It's just that the PC wants to start them as an application while it
treats local files with same extension as data files and launches them
correctly into (and not as) an application.

Maybe it's a file name length issue with the NFS
implementation. If the path + filename length
is greater than a user defined or default length
(255 characters I believe), then perhaps it's
getting truncated or otherwise mucked up, or the
error is not being handled correctly.

Can you try copying or renaming one of the suspect
files to a short length name and placing it in
a top level directory on the drive?


Didn't work :-(

When calling the file from within an application everything is
fine. When clicking the files it errors, the local PC fails to launch
the application registered for that file extension.

I seem to recall an issue with samba interoperation with
linux. Windows did not have a file "executable" flag, whereas linux
does. So samba would default to setting the flag when writing a file
to disc, making all files "executable". Now this would normally not
make any difference from the point of view of windows. But perhaps
windows has smartened up and is now interpreting this flag somehow?

--

John Devereux
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