Re: Samba + external drives
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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 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
> unplugged.
>
> Then, I repeated the tests, with samba, NFS and ftp, copying the same
> ISO to my home directory on the notebook, and this worked without a
> problem.
>
> I copied the file from the notebook's drive to the external drive - no
> problem.
>
> Then I tried the following. I ftp-ed to localhost, and did a "put
> file.iso" to the external drive. This worked 100% I did similar tests
> with nfs and smb, connecting to localhost and copying the file via the
> smb/nfs clients - al worked fine.
>
> I also did at least one failed and one successful each using the
> notebook's wireless instead of wired network, to rule out network
> hardware, and repeated all the tests from my second notebook (which runs
> Debian too).
>
> So it's just a mix of network and network copy that seems to cause
> problems.
>
> I hope that's better :-) Any ideas?
Yeah. Beg for help on lkml. :(
You've asked a relatively smart question. I hope lkml can help even
more.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
- --
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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