File sharing problem with NT

[John Rousseau]

On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, Steve Litt wrote:

> What happens when you try to FTP the files? The root cause you
> seek could possibly be outside of Samba.

FTP works just fine. I regularly FTP over 250MB development
environments (which is why I want to use Samba and share the
filesystem).

Any other ideas?

-John


At 07:31 AM 12/04/1999 +1100, John Rousseau wrote:
>I'm new to Samba, but I have searched the FAQ, DIAGNOSIS.txt and the
>group archives with no success.
>
>I'm running Samba 2.0.6 on RedHat 6.1 (glibc 2.1.2, kernel 2.2.12)
>and sharing an ext2 filesystem.
>
>I'm mounting this filesystem from an Intel Windows NT Server box
>running service pack 5.
>
>When I start to copy files (MKS cp -r) from my NT box to my Linux
>box, everything goes along fine for a while (~10-15 seconds) until
>my copy hits a large file (the one that is failing at this point is
>5.9MB). At that point the NT box says (after a few seconds) "An
>unexpected network error occurred." (thanks for the help Bill!) and
>the copy fails. Trying to look at the shared drive from the NT box
>hangs, but after about a minute it recovers and looks fine.
>
>There are no other clients hitting the server.
>
>The machines are about 5 feet apart on the same piece of 100MB
>ethernet. The Linux box is a 128MB PII-200. The NT box is a 256MB
>PIII-350. 
>
>I've tried pushing up "oplock break wait time" to 50 ms without
>success. Running with "debug level = 2" doesn't show any error
>messages on the Linux side in the log. I've tried running with "nt
>smb support" both on and off without success.
>
>If I try and copy a tree of small files, the copy succeeds.
>
>Anybody have any suggestions? Is there a FAQ entry that I missed?
>
>Thanks
>-John
>
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