[Samba] fI'll post again as I did not get any replies

Travis Forghani travis at bowmanent.com
Sun Jan 13 01:07:26 GMT 2008


Hello,

I'll post again.  If anyone has any idea of what might be causing the 
issue described below, let me know your ideas?

> Hello,
>
> I've setup a basic Linux Workgroup via SAMBA.  Everything is working 
> fine except for the following:
>
> I just replaced a Windows 2003 Storage Server with CentOS 5.1. When my 
> users start copying TIF images from the now CentOS 5.1 server, XP 
> copies the images sporadically. For example: folder1, folder2, 
> folder3, folder4; each folder has 5 sub-folders in it numbered 
> sequentially (00000, 00001, 00002, etc.); each sub-folder has 100 
> images in it. When from an XP box, a user highlights folder1 and 
> pastes it to their local drive the copying of the sub-folders and the 
> images is sporadic. For example: first 00003 is copied and in 00003 
> image 98 is copied and then image 25 and then image 60 and etc.; once 
> 00003 and all of its contents are finished with, the copy process will 
> jump to 00005 and continue to be sporadic. I've been told by the 
> CentOS forum that since XP is doing the writing, XP is causing the 
> problem. I am running the latest Samba available for CentOS 5.1. Also, 
> I have five bonded NICs in the CentOS server. Does anyone have any 
> idea what might be going on?  I personally don't think it is an XP 
> problem.  I also test Win 2000 and the same issue.
>
> My SAMBA Conifg (Configured Via Webmin):
> [global]
>   netbios name = STGSVR1
>   netbios aliases = STGSVR1
>   writeable = yes
>   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>   write list = @beiusers, at root
>   workgroup = BEI-LINUX
>   os level = 20
>   valid users = @beiusers, at root
>   user = @beiusers, at root
>   create mode = 775
>   preferred master = no
>   directory mode = 775
>
> [Stg1_Images]
>   force create mode = 775
>   force user = root
>   path = /data/Stg2_Images
>   force directory mode = 775
>   force group = beiusers
>
> [Stg1_All]
>   force create mode = 775
>   force user = root
>   path = /data
>   force directory mode = 775
>   force group = beiusers 



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