Transfering large files

[Alastair Broom]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 scode at 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 ?
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Alastair Broom               Valley Technology, Edinburgh, Bonnie Scotland
abroom at valleyt.co.uk