Tom wrote:
>
> Um, the most obvious symptom is copying stuff to the RAID array from a
> WinXP workstation. Like tonight I picked a folder full of big files
> and did a drag'n'drop copy into a test folder on a Samba share on the
> linux box. I tried to copy 2.94GB of stuff. After 15-20 minutes, it
> died, like it always does, with "The specified network name is no
> longer available." It had copied 1.714GB worth. If you start again, it
> will just continue. If you use a smarter tool that does retries, you
> can click the OK button on the error and it will just take off where
> it left off as if nothing had happened.
I'm sorry I can't offer you much assistance regarding this, but one
thing that did catch my attention was your failure after copying a large
amount of data in a lengthy amount of time.
I experienced the exact same thing on a "genuine windows" network.
Trying to copy about the same amount of data from a windows server to a
W2K 1GHz workstation. After so long, it would die with the exact same
error message.
My point here is that I don't think it's completely related to your
Samba service, given that it happens on other platforms as well.
One thought (although I'm not sure it would be of much help in your
case) might be to zip the files into smaller chunks (say 10 or so files
to a zip, depending on the size), then copy those a few at a time.
I'm sure someone else with more experience in the windows environment
can shed more light on this.
Craig.
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