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

[Moray Henderson]

Anthony wrote:
>> 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

ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/experimental/centos/5/

The 3.4 series should make its way into their recent and tested
repositories eventually.



Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"