[Samba] Samba & Windows ME

[John H Terpstra]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Chad Baker wrote:

> I just installed Red Hat 7.2 and Samba.  Everything
> went smoothly as it has always gone in the past.  All
> of my clients connect and I have had no problems,
> except for one Windows ME machine.  The Windows ME
> machine connects without a problem and I can copy and
> open single files without a problem.  The problem
> starts when I try to copy a directory containing 130
> megs of files from the Windows ME machine to the Samba
> server.  The files copy fine and are on the Samba
> server in tact and the Windows side shows them as
> complete as well.  But then Windows Explorer locks up
> and the lights on the switch keep going for hours.  No
> additional data seems to be written on the Samba side,
> but the lights don’t stop until I kill the process on
> the Windows machine.  Any ideas what is wrong?

Check your NIC, check you HUB.

I too have several Windows ME machines and none have any problems.
On Sunday I copied a directory containing 6500 files and about 100
directories from WinME to Samba without a single problem.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org