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Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?


On Oct 21 16:03, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

Your mailer is STILL breaking the history, btw.  Could you reconfigure
so the "blah wrote:" header is preserved for each mail in the thread you
still quote?  Thanks.

> > On Oct 21 15:33, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 
> >> Windows does not allow for reparse points to networked locations.
> >> Symlinks all right, directory junctions no.
> 
> > Fine, but then the question is, why is the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT
> > flag set in the first place?
> 
> May be the reparse point was manually tampered with.

How so?  You can't set or clear the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT flag
on an existing file.  The flag seems to be set by the server providing
the drive for some reason.


Corinna


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