Re: Samba + external drives
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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 slower.
>
> I have a Mac Mini at home, so I have some samba shares on the external
> drive. The Mac can acess them fine (OS X 10.4), but when I copy large a
> file from the Mac to one of the shares on the external drive, it copies
> a bit and then fails saying something to the effect that the share is
> not accessible. Looking back at the notebook, syslog gives me the kind
> of errors you get when unplugging a disc without unmounting it. So my
> first thought was that either the disc or the enclosure was going bad.
>
> So I ran an fsck on the disc, which came out fine. Copying huge files
> to it directly from the notebook works fine as well. So it seems to be
> fine.
>
> Then I remembered I had a similar problem at a client copying from
> Windows to a samba server on an external (USB2) drive. Different
> machines, different drives, different distro (SUSE 9.2 or 10.0 at the
> time). I have since tried various distros on my notebook (extra
> partition), and I always get the same result, so it seems to be a
> persisten samba issue.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
But samba works well when transferring from OSX to an internal drive?
What does Google say?
What kernel are you running? Debian or home-rolled?
A syslog extract would be helpful.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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