Topic: Copying large files, XP to e-smith

[Rick Jones]

I'm having a problem with high-volume writes to e-smith from an XP box (e.g. large backups). After some minutes it will give up, and popup an error on XP saying basically "delayed write failed". However, I can copy similar sized volumes to the same server from Win98 boxes with no trouble.

It's all 100MB Ethernet, and everything else works fine.

Any ideas? Could this be a samba issue, and if so is 3.0 likely to help?

Is anyone actually running samba 3 on e-smith yet? The previous thread on the subject didn't get to any conclusions

TIA
Rick Jones

[Kelvin]

Hi Rick,

There could be a number of reasons.

1. If your Windows XP has SP1 loaded, try the MS KB Q329170 patch first.
2. You could have a dodgy NIC / cable.

Kelvin

[Robert Harlow]

File attributes/Permissions issue? The W98 boxes do it without such.

best wishes, Robert

[Rick Jones]

Thanks for the ideas, the dodgy NIC suggestion came close - it was actually fixed by  NIC driver upgrade. Windows had loaded a generic driver (without complaint) and upgrading to the latest device-specific one sorted it out.

Nothing to do with e-smith, it was just strange that it was only when copying to the e-smith server that it showed up. Copying to other Windows machines on the LAN worked OK!

Cheers

[Graeme Fleming]

.. poss related to the packet size the generic drivers used not to mention how efficiently this driver used its buffers