-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 14:40, koffiejunkie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a strange problem. I use an external IDE/Firewire enclosure on > my notebook. This works 100%, is solid as a rock and performs very very > well. It works with USB2 too, reliably, just slower. > > I have a Mac Mini at home, so I have some samba shares on the external > drive. The Mac can acess them fine (OS X 10.4), but when I copy large a > file from the Mac to one of the shares on the external drive, it copies > a bit and then fails saying something to the effect that the share is > not accessible. Looking back at the notebook, syslog gives me the kind > of errors you get when unplugging a disc without unmounting it. So my > first thought was that either the disc or the enclosure was going bad. > > So I ran an fsck on the disc, which came out fine. Copying huge files > to it directly from the notebook works fine as well. So it seems to be > fine. > > Then I remembered I had a similar problem at a client copying from > Windows to a samba server on an external (USB2) drive. Different > machines, different drives, different distro (SUSE 9.2 or 10.0 at the > time). I have since tried various distros on my notebook (extra > partition), and I always get the same result, so it seems to be a > persisten samba issue. > > Has anyone else seen this?
But samba works well when transferring from OSX to an internal drive? What does Google say? What kernel are you running? Debian or home-rolled? A syslog extract would be helpful. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGwhE4S9HxQb37XmcRAjoMAJ9Mu4Jh7u/C7I4x1MKb8LAomTKTmgCePr1X EN+94aJ88cRvYWBhnYBKVEA= =pj+b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]