Windows 98 Stalls When Copying Large Files to Samba cvs HEAD

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

ok, what happens with these badly configured m/cs when copying to nt
boxes?

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> Sorry for the false alarm people.
> 
> While checking configurations of Samba/Solaris, it occured to me that
> the problem might actually exist within the setup of my Windows 98
> client (what a novel concept that Windows might be broken).
> 
> Sure enough, my machine had spontaneously added two devices representing
> my network card, both with TCP/IP functionality. So now I've suddenly
> fixed a whole swathe of problems with my machine that didn't involve
> Samba at all.
> 
> BTW - thanks for the people who offered support. For future reference,
> if you're looking for "strace" and you're working on Solaris, what you
> really want is "truss".
> 
> Anyhow, I've chewed enough bandwidth already.
> Alex
> 
> Alex Satrapa wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 

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