I just began seeing similar behaviour on a Windows7 PC with samba mounts. I am running uwin 4.5, and the problems started with the last automatic update of Windows. The main server is running CentOS 6.2 and the latest Samba package. I don't have any Novell mounts.
A second problem not mentioned by Richard is that until the update, I could mount.cifs a folder on the Windows system as r/w on the CentOS system, and could create and modify files on the cifs mount. The last update eliminated the writeability; I can still see the files from CentOS, but they are read-only and cannot be written or touched. Metta, Ivan On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 04:57, Richard Kunz <[email protected]> wrote: > We tested UWIN version 4.5 and 5.0 on a Windows 7 (Enterprise) PC > running SP1 and Novell Client 2 (SP1) and found that neither version of > UWIN can access files stored on our Novell fileserver (running Netware > v6.5). An "ls -al" of a folder located on a mapped network drive reports 0 > (zero) as the size of all files. Copying such a file (using KSH) from the > Novell mapped network drive creates a zero size file under UWIN's /home > folder. However, Windows' 7 native file manager (Windows Explorer) is able > to successfully copy the same file. > > We also tested UWIN v5.0 on a Windows XP PC running SP3 and Novell Client > 4.91 (SP3) and were able to successfully copy a file (using KSH) from the > Novell mapped network drive to /home. However, Perl (2009-12-18) seems > incompatible with UWIN 5.0 (it won't install as a UWIN 4.x install > directory is not present in the PC's registry). When will an updated > version of PERL, which is compatible with UWIN 5, be made available? > > Under Windows 7, we then tried running KSH in Windows compatibility mode > (as XP with SP3 and as Administrator) as a possible solution. This did not > solve the problem and made KSH highly unstable (KSH would close/exit for no > reason). We even tried running the UWIN Master Service (UMS.EXE) in XP > (SP3) compatibility mode. Again, this did not solve our problem. > > We tried running UWIN v4.5 in Windows XP mode v1.3.76 (Windows Virtual PC) > on our Windows 7 (Enterprise) machine and were able to successfully > copy files off our Novell fileserver in KSH. We also tested UWIN v4.5 in > VMware Player and again had no problems accessing our Novell fileserver. To > date, the only issue we have running UWIN in a virtual XP environment > (besides performance/speed issues) is that Perl scripts do not work. > Running a Perl script exits with "Cannot execute [unknown error 14001]". > > UWIN's (v5.0) inability to "see" Novell mapped network drives in > Windows 7 is a major problem for us. We have developed 1000's of lines of > KSH scripting in Windows XP (UWIN 4.5) to "automate" climate change > research, which we cannot migrate to Windows 7. > > Any feedback from the UWIN user base would be gratefully appreciated. > > Many thanks, Richard. > > Please find our Email Disclaimer here-->: * > http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer* > > _______________________________________________ > uwin-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users > > -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours
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