Andrea,
Apparantly you loose your network ip address ? What does
/way/to/your/startup/scripts/network start
or
/sbin/ifup eth0 (your problematic network interface is eth0, I guess ?)
give as a result when you have these network problems ? Do you get your
network capabilities back ? I can hardly imagine that samba would be at
the origin of the problems that you describe ?
I may be (quite) wrong, but from what you tell, I'd rather suspect some
problems with your network interface(/driver) which probably only shows
up whenever *sending* big files over that interface ? Are you sure you
use the correct driver for your interface? Do you have an idea if the
same problem would occur when sending over the big file using NFS ? If
using samba for sending over the file, are you sure the problem really
doesn't always occur at the *very* same place ?
Kind regards
Andrea Lanza wrote:
Hi all,
I am facing the following problem:
if I copy a large file (more than 8GB, i.e.) from a local linux workstation
to a SMB server (both samba N.A.S. than windows xp /2003), I have no
problems
If I try to copy back the same file, after a while (1GB... 2GB, sometimes 5
GB),
I got an error about smb server unavailable.
At this point I have no more network on the linux pc. I tried to
ifdown/ifup, I tried to change ip address via yast
(I am running on an opensuse 10.2 box): no net available !!
I also tried to uninstall anything installed (3.0.23) and install the latest
binaries 3.027: no changes !
I also tried both mounting locally the SMB remote via mount.cifs than using
smbclient
and using get command after: no changes !!
The only way I have to make the pc having back the net is to reboot it
(network light is on: ethtool see it connected: route sees the same thing
before and after crash !! )
If I try to ping a local net host, I get the error: Destination Host
Unreachable
What can I check ? kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp #1 smbclient: both 3.023 than
3.027
thanks in advance,
Andrea
