[Samba] Vista clients having Issues Copying files from Samba Server

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Mon Dec 14 05:05:45 MST 2009


> Please update to Samba 3.4.3 or later. Many Vista and Windows 7 support
> related issues have been addressed during the 3.4.x series.
>
> Firstly, if the Samba logs note an invalid function all, that may mean
> an upgrade to a more recent version of Samba is needed.  When a Windows
> client notes an invalid function call or an invalid file handle the
> cause may be problems in the network transport layer.
>
> Secondly, note what the Samba server log message says. Short translation
> is: "I was taking to the client, but the client went away and did not
> respond!"   The client dropped the connection.  In all likeliness this
> is not a Samba problem and may actually be a network problem.  It is a
> problem regularly seen with low-cost ethernet interfaces and cheap
> ether-switches.
>
> Kindest,
> John T.
>
>

I think I already know the answer to this but do you know of any 3rd party
repos that would have packages for samba 3.4.x on Centos 5.4?

Cheers,

Anthony




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