Windows 98 Stalls When Copying Large Files to Samba cvs HEAD

[Alex Satrapa]

Ick... to find out the answer to that, I'll have to go and
re-badly-configure my machine. I think I know how to replicate that feat
(it's called "move the PCI card to a different slot").

I'll have a go this weekend, and let you know what happens. If I can't
replicate the problem on NT (but it still happens on Samba), I'll try
tracing (trussing) the smbd process.

Regards
Alex

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> 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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