Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-18 Thread koffiejunkie
koffiejunkie wrote: Right, I just finished doing some tests. Via NFS and FTP, to the external disc, the same thing happens. The copy runs fine (I was copying a 3.9GB ISO) for a random amount of time - shortest now was 300MB, longest was just under 3GB - and then the disc seem to get

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/07 17:59, koffiejunkie wrote: [snip] So it would seem the automount stuff is causing this. But why? Because automounting is a bad/Evil Windows idea, and it's taking it's Evil revenge out on us by causing such problems. - -- Ron Johnson,

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-15 Thread koffiejunkie
Ron Johnson wrote: What if you FTP the file from the OSX box to the firewire drive on the external drive? That might narrow down the problem. I'll give it a try tonight. I suspect it will work :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-15 Thread koffiejunkie
Ron Johnson wrote: What if you FTP the file from the OSX box to the firewire drive on the external drive? That might narrow down the problem. Right, I just finished doing some tests. Via NFS and FTP, to the external disc, the same thing happens. The copy runs fine (I was copying a 3.9GB

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/07 17:38, koffiejunkie wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: What if you FTP the file from the OSX box to the firewire drive on the external drive? That might narrow down the problem. Right, I just finished doing some tests. Via NFS and FTP, to

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
So it's just a mix of network and network copy that seems to cause problems. I hope that's better :-) Any ideas? I'd try linux-kernel. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread koffiejunkie
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

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-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

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread koffiejunkie
Ron Johnson wrote: -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,

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread michael
Copying the same file to the notebook's internal drive via samba works fine, and then copying the file from the notebook's drive to the external drive (i.e. no samba) works fine. Any ideas? Would be interested to see if sharing the drive via netatalk makes a difference. Have you tried

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 17:14, koffiejunkie wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -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