samba often fails to download complete files

[Hans Bakker]

Binary package hint: samba

I am running Kubuntu 9.10, all packages up to date.
The version of the samba package and related packages is 3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1

My problem is that when I copy large files from my university network to my laptop (using e.g. dolphin), the copying stops and I get an error that the file could not be read. The file is still available then. The KDE file copying service has no resume functionality when I try to copy it again, so this is very frustrating.

When I use smbget -r to download a file, it stops downloading too after a while, but I can resume it using this tool.
The error smbget returns is "Can't read 64000 bytes at offset XXXXXXXXX" (XXXXXXXXX being some large number depending how much of the file is downloaded already).

I did not try to copy files to the university network. I connect to that network using openvpn.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

Can you attach your /etc/samba/smb.conf and the output of

smbget -r -d 10

Thanks
chuck

[Hans Bakker (hansmbakker)]

Hi,

Of course. Here they are.

Kind regards,

Hans Bakker

2009/11/16 Chuck Short <email address hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> Can you attach your /etc/samba/smb.conf and the output of
>
> smbget -r -d 10
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
> ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> samba often fails to download complete files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482619
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> of the bug.
>

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for providing the information.

Regards
chuck

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Lucid Lynx. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Also can you still reproduce with the latest karmic updates ?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Hans Bakker (hansmbakker)]

I don't know when it was fixed exactly, but I don't encounter the error anymore for quite some time now.

I would appreciate it, however, if KDE would support resuming Samba downloads!