Hello! I've been seeing some weird problems with transfering large files from a Samba (2.0.4a[1]) server to Windows clients. Sometimes (but not always) the Windows client will stop copying the file after a few megs and claim that the share is no longer available (it is, of course). This used to happen *a lot* with the default read/write buffer of 8k. The buffer is now 250 K, which has almost eliminated the problem (aswell as speed things up). But the problem still seems to exist. I've searched the archives and I found a message from someone else having the exact same problem (but on an older version of samba); but I didn't find a solution. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing the behavior? Could it be a configuration problem, or is it definitely a bug in samba (or, perhaps more likely, a bug in Windows that is triggered by samba)? [1] It will be upgraded pretty soon, but judging by the changelogs, this particular problem has not been addressed Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller <scode@scode.webprovider.com>' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to scode-getpgpkey@scode.webprovider.com E-Mail: scode@scode.webprovider.com Web: hem.passagen.se/petersch -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 248 bytes Desc: not available Url : lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/19990919/7c857df4/attachment.bin
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 scode@scode.webprovider.com wrote:> I've been seeing some weird problems with transfering large files from a > Samba (2.0.4a[1]) server to Windows clients. Sometimes (but not always) the > Windows client will stop copying the file after a few megs and claim that > the share is no longer available (it is, of course). > > Does anyone have an idea what might be causing the behavior? >See my message to the list on Sat 18th Sept about "oplock and SCO 5.0.4" which is essentially the same problem. I found that setting "oplock = False" in the smb.conf made the problem go away, but thats not exactly ideal. What OS is your samba running on ? -- Alastair Broom Valley Technology, Edinburgh, Bonnie Scotland abroom@valleyt.co.uk