** Description changed: - I have a large directory, almost 50Gb and 45.000 files shared by samba on ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS server. - I used to copy the whole directory regularly on my desktop, and execute a backup with deja dup on that. - I did also often backup directly from the samba share. - After upgrading my client to 12.10, copying the directory hangs randomly, sometimes after having copied just 1 Gb, others having almost completed the whole transfer. - It just hangs, without any crash. + Problem + ======= + Copying files to and from samba shares (this includes Windows shares) is unreliable in Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 when using nautilus' integrated samba client (gvfs-smb): The copy randomly hangs after a few files or a few GB. - I noted the also Deja -dup shows the same behaviour, now it's impossible to complete a backup from the share, it just hangs. - It seems to me that a bug in the samba client might be the cause of these issues, since neither nautilus nor Deja-dup have problems with local large directories. - - my system: Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64 - nautilus: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 - deja-dup: deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu1 - smbclient 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 - samba-common: 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 - samba-common-bin: 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 - - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 - Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 - Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64 - ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 - Architecture: amd64 - Date: Wed Nov 7 12:05:58 2012 - GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'825x550+853+471'" - InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-22 (16 days ago) - InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) - MarkForUpload: True - SourcePackage: nautilus - UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + Workaround + ========== + Until gvfs-smb is fixed, use the kernel samba client (cifs) that works reliably, is faster, but needs some terminal commands to get going: + # sudo -s + # mkdir /mnt/cifs + # mount -t cifs -o user=YOUR_SAMBA_USER -o uid=YOUR_LINUX_USER "//SAMBA_SERVER/SAMBA_SHARE" /mnt/cifs + It will ask for you password, you can then access the shared files at /mnt/cifs.
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