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Bug 515963 - replacing an existant file give a File Exists error (LanDrive)
replacing an existant file give a File Exists error (LanDrive)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 599354
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: smb backend
0.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-12 09:35 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2014-05-31 20:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Sebastien Bacher 2008-02-12 09:35:53 UTC 
Copying a file to smb location which already has a file with the same name, nautilus opens a dialog which gives the choice to replace the file, using this choice gives an another dialog Files Exists error. Using gvfs-copy -i gives the same error
Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2008-02-14 11:47:08 UTC 
Weird, it works for me. I.E. i get the first error dialog, select replace and it overwrites.
Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2008-02-15 12:48:26 UTC 
We debugged this, the core cause for this is that the libsmbclient open()
call doesn't correctly give an EISDIR error when the target is a directory.

This works on samba and windows xp shares, but the apparently it fails for a
LanDrive: http://www.mediacase.co.uk/

This is somewhat similar to bug 515960
Comment 3 Ross Lagerwall 2014-05-31 20:00:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> We debugged this, the core cause for this is that the libsmbclient open()
> call doesn't correctly give an EISDIR error when the target is a directory.
> 
> This works on samba and windows xp shares, but the apparently it fails for a
> LanDrive: http://www.mediacase.co.uk/
> 

Looks like a duplicate of bug 599354.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 599354 ***