282633 - Download fails to Samba [CIFS] networked drives unless you use right click "Save link as" to save a file

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Dave Kerr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

1. I have a folder "/users" on which a networked drive is mounted using Samba.
Works fine for all other applications such as openoffice, and many others.
Permissions are rwx for everyone.

2. If I try to download a file to /users by clicking on a link, navigating to
/users and clicking "save as", the pop up window simply disappears and no
download takes place! Before clicking "Save", you can right click and create new
folders in /users with no problems.

3. Performing the step defined in 2 above to a local folder [eg /home] works
perfectly.

4. Performing the download using right click "Save link as", then navigating to
/users etc works fine!!!

5. IN other words, this bug happens ONLY on a networked folder and ONLY when you
directly click the link for the download.

6. Clue? I have tried this on a whole variety of file types and it is totally
reproducible. However, when [for instance] I click on a *.iso file, the type
field in the subsequent window only mentions files of "type *.iso". If I do the
same thing using right click [which will subsequently work], there are several
file types mentioned, of which one is .iso.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See details above. Simple to setup with a networked drive mounted on a local
mount point. Mine is "/users"


Actual Results:  
The pop up boxes simply disappear, download manager does not start and no file
is downloaded

Expected Results:  
The download manager should start, download the file and show progress.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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