On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:24:07AM +0000, Ben Clayton wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very odd issue - I cannot copy a large-ish (1.1GB) ISO file > to a Samba share on a specific server, and having spent a couple of > days on the issue, I'm running out of things to try, and I'm hoping > for some suggestions. > > The destination system is an old P4 system on a Via based > motherboard (P4MA Pro). It has two IDE disks, a Maxtor 40GB on IDE > channel 1 as the system disk, and a 500GB drive on IDE channel 2, > with one large EXT3 partition, mounted as /home. (There would > normally be a CD drive also on channel 2, but it is disconnected at > the moment as part of my testing.) > > /home/downloads is shared, and generally works fine, but we seem to > have problems copying large files to it. I now have a repeatable > issue: attempting to copy debian-live-6.0.3-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso, > of 1.1GB to it fails every time - copying from an Ubuntu 10.04 or an > Ubuntu 11.10 system, either just using smb:// in Nautilus' address > bar, or using a mount from fstab. The progress bar moves in fits and > starts, then finally hangs right at the end for some > seconds/minutes, before failing. > > Clicking for more details on the "Error while copying..." dialogue > gives "Error closing file: Input/output error".
Take a look inside the Samba logs - see if you can see any errors there. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba