Nautilus in Ubuntu 8.04 has the ability to write to my  SMB server.
I can not do this with Ubuntu 10.04.   I have yet to test 12.04
The fast work around is to load GNOME COMMANDER to transfer your files.


> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:57:47 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 393012] Re: [SRU] smb: Error while copying file,	"Invalid argument"
> 
> I have the same problem on ununtu 12.04. It occurs after copying 1.4
> GBytes of a 8.5 GByte file.
> 
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> Title:
>   [SRU] smb: Error while copying file, "Invalid argument"
> 
> Status in autofs  -  automatic filesystem mounter:
>   Confirmed
> Status in GVFS:
>   Unknown
> Status in Samba:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “gvfs” source package in Maverick:
>   Invalid
> Status in “samba” source package in Maverick:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “gvfs” package in Debian:
>   Fix Released
> 
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: nautilus
> 
>   While copying a folder from ubuntu to a Windows XP PC, I get an error
>   message, "Error while copying "Tarantula-1.jpg".
> 
>   "There was an error copying the file into
>   smb://asus1/documents/Tarantula." Show more details: Invalid argument
> 
>   The source folder is called "Tarantula", which contains:
>   /host/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/Tarantula> ls -sail
>   total 15545
>   112420    0 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       0 2009-06-27 11:41 .
>     3856    4 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    4096 2009-06-27 16:43 ..
>   112426    1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      59 2009-06-27 11:40 .picasa.ini
>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2622811 2009-06-27 11:41 Tarantula-1.jpg
>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2565675 2009-06-27 11:41 Tarantula-2.jpg
>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2449986 2009-06-27 11:41 Tarantula-3.jpg
>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2442001 2009-06-27 11:41 Tarantula-4.jpg
>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2596930 2009-06-27 11:41 Tarantula-5.jpg
>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3218977 2009-06-27 11:40 Tarantula.jpg
> 
>   I am able to read and delete files on the remote Win XP PC shared
>   folder asus1/documents. The folder does not exist on this remote PC.
> 
>   At the start of the copy, Nautilus creates the folder "Tarantula",
>   then terminates with the error: "Error while copying
>   "Tarantula-1.jpg".
> 
>   The Tarantula folder on the remote PC (as reported from Nautilus 2.26.2 File Browser):
>   Location: smb://asus1/documents/Tarantula
>   Tarantula-1.jpg , size = 64.0 KB, type = JPEG Image, group = unknown, Octal Permissions = unknown, Owner = unknown, Permissions = unknown
>   .picasa.ini = 59 bytes, type = unknown, group = unknown, Octal Permissions = unknown, Owner = unknown, Permissions = unknown
> 
>   It appears that the .ini file was copied completely, as I can open and
>   read the file in a text editor. The JPEG image was partially copied
>   when smb terminated. The problem can be repeated.
> 
>   This may be a problem with smb.
> 
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   Architecture: amd64
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
>   ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: nautilus
>   Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64
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