Re: Re: Another Strange Win32::Perms Issue

All very good questions:
Is it the only directory you are accessing as a share?
Is it the only share you are accessing on that machine?
Does the problem go away of you run the program on that machine?
The script is running on the same machine as the files I am checking. The files are located in many different directories (most of them are shared) but again, I am accessing them directly from the machine they reside on.

I suppose I will copy the files to a FAT volume, remove the share, delete the directory and then recreate the directory and share and then copy the files back in and see what happens. Thanks for your in depth reply.

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Re: Re: Re: Another Strange Win32::Perms Issue by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 28, 2003 at 21:56 UTC
Another thought crosses my mind. Is it possible that the files in that directory were created (and therefore owned) by people accessing the machine across the LAN or WAN? It strikes me that if they are, then obtaining ownership information could require consultation with the domain controllers where the owners 'live'. If that meant that the local machine was having to send queries to WAN remote PDC's, then that could intrduce quite long delays. Note: This is pure speculation. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail Hooray!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Another Strange Win32::Perms Issue by ChrisR (Hermit) on Oct 28, 2003 at 22:19 UTC
I thought about that too so I took ownership of all files in that directory. That is the local administrator's account took ownership. Also we have other files that are owned by members of the other domains but I've not noticed any slowness there. Good idea though. After copying the files to a FAT volume, the script runs fine. I copied the files back to the NTFS volume and the script ran fine. I recreated the share reset the permissions and the script runs gets slow again. At least now I know the problem lies in the sharing or permissions and I can work with that. Thanks very much.	[reply]