I have seen poor results with CIFS over wide area network (in general, outside Jenkins). My excuse was that CIFS is a file system sharing protocol, which makes it less suitable for a wide area network transport. You might consider using a different transport (http, ftp, or scp).
Mark Waite >________________________________ > From: Richard Otter <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:28 PM >Subject: Resend: Publish Over CIFS Plugin fails when used over internet > > > >This is a show stopper for us. Any ideas? >Thanks! > > >I have started to use the "Publish Over CIFS Plugin" because I have tried to >move some of our build machines to Amazon EC2. >I formerly just did a file copy to our Windows server file share from the >Windows slaves because they were running as users with the correct >permissions. >Anyway, in the new environment where some builds may be coming from nodes >running as non-domain users, I figured I'd use this plugin with the "Always >transfer from master" option. > >It works, sort of. >Local build machines transfer the file reliably. However, from Amazon EC2 the >transfers never finish. > >My "build artifact" (the setup.exe file) is about 150 MB. I can't get anything >to transfer bigger than 88 MB using the plugin. In the morning, the build >progress is bright red. I cancel the job and see: > >18:16:10CIFS: Connecting from host [usherapp42] >18:16:10CIFS: Connecting with configuration [PT-SoftwareDev] ... >09:26:03CIFS: Disconnecting configuration [PT-SoftwareDev] ... >09:26:03ERROR: Exception when publishing, exception message [null] >09:26:03Build step 'Send build artifacts to a windows share' changed build >result to FAILURE >09:26:03Build step 'Send build artifacts to a windows share' marked build as >failure > >The wiki for the plugin talks about parameters like “Retries” that I don’t see >in either the Jenkins config or the job config. >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google >Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/dti8k78ysg4/unsubscribe?hl=en. >To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Jenkins Users" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
