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Accessing CIFS from KDE

samuel_penn
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,

I'm running Alfresco 2.1 community on Gentoo Linux, and KDE 3.5.8 on the client. I'm not sure whether this is a KDE issue, or an Alfresco issue, but I'm seeing some file corruption when writing to an Alfresco CIFS share from KDE.

Basically, if I open Konqueror pointing at my CIFS share (e.g., smb://fafner/AVM/…), I can create new files without any problem. If I modify the file by adding content to it, again no problems. However, if I edit the file and make it shorter, then the file is not truncated. Any change to the file which results in a shorter file causes the file to contain junk at the end.

If I create a file containing:


Hello World.
Hello Again.

Load it up, and edit it and save the following:


Hello Nice World.

Reloading the file results in:


Hello Nice World.

Again.

I'm not sure whether this is a KDE issue, or an Alfresco issue, but KDE works fine when talking to my samba server, but then CIFS seems to work fine from a Microsoft client. I can reproduce the problem pretty much every time. I've had no problems when using webdav from KDE, but I can't access WCM from webdav.

Is there anything I can do to try and track down where the problem is?

Has anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks,
Sam.
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rdanner
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Sam have you have had further issues with this?

rdanner
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Champ in-the-making

samuel_penn
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Sam have you have had further issues with this?

It's still a problem as far as I'm aware. The only work around I have is to ensure that files have a large amount of white space at the end of them, so what gets left behind is only whitespace.