[Virtualacorn-list] ShareFS producing triplicate unusable files on VRPC

[David Pitt]

Dr Peter Young <pnyoung at ormail.co.uk> wrote:

> [Posted and mailed]
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is a problem with ShareFS or with the update of
> HostFS on VRPC, so I hope I will be excused if I cross-post it to
> c.s.a.networking and the VA list, with a copy to Aaron. (PS to Aaron: I'll
> probably phone you on Wednesday about my other problem, mentioned on the
> forum.)
> 
> In the last two or three days ShareFS has been behaving very oddly. If I
> try to transfer files from this Iyo to either of two copies of VRPC for
> Windows, I get on VRPC three copies of each file, with seemingly random
> dates, and with two copies of each of zero length. Rather than try to
> explain further, I've uploaded a screenshot of what I see, having
> transferred an OPro and a DataPower file, in VRPC to
> http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk/screen.jpg
> 
> If I try to delete any of the zero-length files, they all three get
> deleted. Needless to say, all of these files are completely unusable, and
> I've been having to transfer via LanMan98 direct to the HostFS hard disc.
> 
> I haven't changed anything in ShareFS, and the only other thing I've done
> is to install the upgrades of HostFS on both copies of VRPC.
> 
> Any advice would be gratefully received.

I have just discovered this phenomena on VRPC on WindowsXP. I was copying
data from the Iyonix to VRPC using the Iyonix to make the copy.

I retrieved the original dll from an Acronis backup.

-- 
David Pitt