Re: File compatibility issues with LAN drive

Joerg notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx posted to
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JosephKK wrote:
Joerg notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx posted to
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John Devereux wrote:
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Greg Neill wrote:
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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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?

Making _all_ files executable? Somehow that doesn't strike me as a
particularly smart move ... But yeah, this could indeed be the
problem because Windows always wants to start them as executables.
Doesn't explain the unzip problem though. Winzip refuses a file on
the LAN drive. Once moved to a local drive it accepts it.

Thanks for the hint.


There are some really wild differences between *nix file
permissions
systems and NFTS file system permissions. The default Samba
install
does not remap these very well. Typically setting all permissions
to yes.


All the more reason to stay away from Linux and all that. It'll just
create more non-productive debug work, and I've got enough
productive work right now.

I'll just do regular mirror copies onto the XP machine which "fixes"
it.


Each to their own, at home Linux is my production environment. The
workplace has MSwin user boxes and Unix servers. Each system is fine
by itself, it is mixing them that causes the headaches.

.

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