Windows 98 Stalls When Copying Large Files to Samba cvs HEAD

[Alex Satrapa]

I've been having endless troubles copying files from a Windows 98
machine to a Samba share.

The file that's the victim of the problem is a 28k HTML file called
"Section1.html". I've copied other files with no problem - everything
from 120b to 9kb. It seems that Samba/Win98 is choking on large files.

I've tried to find the cause of the problem, but since I'm in totally
unfamiliar territory (I'm a PERL scripter, not a C programmer, and I
haven't much of a clue how Samba works internally), I finally admit
defeat. I'm sure there's something wrong with either some obscure
registry entry in my Windows 98 machine, or something about the way the
Samba source was configured before it was compiled. Sorry, I don't have
the exact options at hand.

I've tried different settings for oplocks and strict sync. Can you tell
that I haven't got a clue? :)  The problem remains (nothing changed that
I noticed - the problem stayed exactly the same).

If anyone has even "stab in the dark" suggestions, I'd like to hear
them!

Windows sits there saying "8 minutes remaining" for about two minutes,
then aborts the copy with the following error message:

"Cannot create or replace Section1: The specified network resource or
device is no longer available. [OK]"

Samba reports the following at log level 5:
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 5] smbd/mangle.c:name_map_mangle(982)
  name_map_mangle() ==> [tpacoo]
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 4] smbd/dir.c:DirCacheAdd(678)
  Added dir cache entry BEP-CD/HUMAN_SOLUTIONS_DATA/www.accc.gov.au
TPACOO -> tpacoo
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 5] smbd/filename.c:unix_convert(634)
  conversion finished
BEP-CD/HUMAN_SOLUTIONS_DATA/WWW.ACCC.GOV.AU/TPACOO/Section1.html ->
BEP-CD/HUMAN_SO
LUTIONS_DATA/www.accc.gov.au/tpacoo/Section1.html
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 5] locking/locking_shm.c:shm_get_share_modes(119)
  get_share_modes hash bucket 6 empty
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(496)
  size=35
  smb_com=0x6
  smb_rcls=0
  smb_reh=0
  smb_err=0
  smb_flg=128
  smb_flg2=1
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(502)
  smb_tid=1
  smb_pid=5937
  smb_uid=100
  smb_mid=39810
  smt_wct=0
[1999/06/09 10:55:02, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(512)
  smb_bcc=0


Regards
Alex Satrapa