SAMBA VS FTP: I am testing e-smith on a two node network and the other night I was copying files between Win98se and e-smith. I used the Windows Explorer to copy the files to the server and had no problems but when I tried to copy the files back using Explorer it would copy a couple files and then give me an error about the files not being accessible. It seemed to choke on 500KB or larger files. However, when I fired up my GUI FTP software (as opposed to using the text based FTP included with Win98) I had no trouble at all copying the files back to my Windows machine. Is this a Samba problem or can you determine anything without having more detailed information? If this is a known issue will it be different in v3.0? I want to use e-smith as a file server as well as email and internet access if possible so this is an important issue to me - Windows programs need to be able to work on data files residing on the server. Also, we are interested in putting a couple Linux servers on the network - can I use e-smith for both, disabling email and internet access on one of them or would I be better off just using stock Red Hat 6.0? Thanks for the help. By the way, I am eagerly waiting for the 3.0 release - I hope we don't overload your FTP server when your release it.
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