[cifs-discuss] [storage-discuss] [zfs-discuss] dos programs on a

[Alan M Wright]

Maurilio Longo wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> I don't know if you found the source of the problem that I have when a DOS
> program (I used norton commander 4.0) tries to access a cifs server share, but
> today, while testing latest nexenta.org code, I've found a very easy way to
> spot this problem.
> 
> From a dos prompt, on a win pc accessing a cifs share, a simple
> 
> dir ????????.???
> 
> finds only those files whose file name is eight chars plus three chars for the
> extension, while the same command on a windows share finds all the files up to
> eight chars of filename.
> 
> I think this is the origin of my problem, I can send you a trace of the
> request which fails.
> 
> Hope this helps to fix this issue.

Thanks.  Interestingly, this problem appears on XP but I don't
see it with Windows 2000 (being tracked by CR 6695825).

FYI: CIFS discussion has moved to cifs-discuss.

Alan

> Best regards.
> 
> Maurilio.
> 
> 
> Alan M Wright wrote:
>> Maurilio Longo wrote:
>>> Alan,
>>>
>>> do you have news about this issue? Is the trace file Ok? Do I have to
>>> do something more/different?
>> Not yet.  I had a quick look at the network capture but don't
>> have an answer yet.  I'm hoping to get some time from our test
>> group to try to reproduce it.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>