Tranferring of files stalls

[adrenaline_nz]

Hi all,

Something odd is happening when I transferr a file from my Fedora Core 3 box to my MS Windows 2003 server. The file is an image file, I have it located in my Home dir, and the drive on my Server is mounted in /mnt.

The first time I tried to move the file I was playing a movie over the network from the same server and then copied the file from /home to /mnt/Files$ the file got to 98% transferred and then my PC locked up, nothing would work except for the reset button ;)

I then restarted the PC and recopied the file across, the file got to 98% again and stalled, but the PC did not lock up, it eventually finished after a couple of minutes, the file in question is 350MB in size.

I am still very new to Linux so don't really know where to start looking in the logs etc, I'm thinking it could be a problem with the Server and am contemplating installing Linux on that as it also seems to crash repeatedly anyway, no surprise there really though, although I think it may have been the way it was setup.

Thanks for your input in advance!

[james_in_denver]

Hmm, how are you copying it?

FTP?, Samba?, NFS?, HTTP?.

And what tool on the windows box?

[adrenaline_nz]

I have the folder on the Windows server mounted in /mnt/files$ with CIFS in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, no tool on the windows box other than network file sharing with permissions.

Thanks

[james_in_denver]

Has the problem repeated itself?

I've run into that once or twice, where a very large has a problem transferring, but I haven't run into in the last several years.

Any chance the partition you were copying to was full? Do you have disk quota's running?

[adrenaline_nz]

Has the problem repeated itself?

I've run into that once or twice, where a very large has a problem transferring, but I haven't run into in the last several years.

Any chance the partition you were copying to was full? Do you have disk quota's running?

Problem repeats itself all the time, particulary while transferring large files, I wonder if it's the server not keeping up with the 2 transferrs going on and stopping one so the other can carry on, PC is a 1600 Duron with 512mb ram as said before running Windows 2003 SBS, with Exchange, webservices etc running so maybe it's just bogged down with applications running.

No disk quotas, and the disks have HEAPS of space ;)

Thanks for your help though, I'll look at installing Clark Connect on it in the next week or so once I can move the data around and get it running as a file server, email etc, might need to buy another 200GB disk so I can do that, any excuse for more hardware hehehe ;)

Cheers

N

[james_in_denver]

LOL,

Only problem is, I don't think it's exactly related to hardware.

Sounds something like a socket "going to sleep" (not getting an "ack") and not waking up.

Have you tried stopping smbd and then starting it from the command line with "smbd -d #" (where # is an integer between 1 and 10, that's the "debuglevel").

You might also fire up "gkrellm" or some other monitor to get an idea of what type of bandwidth you are using for the down/up-loads....

Then there's always ethereal......(network sniffing tool)....

[Lenard]

It might be related to gamin problem you might want to upgrade gamin;

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-March/msg00001.html

[adrenaline_nz]

Thanks for the answers, gamin is running the latest version, I have installed ethereal, what am I looking for while running it? I don't have samba running as I'm using CIFS to mount the windows shares, as samba wouldn't mount shares on Windows 2003 - maybe thats the problem, I'll have a look around the web today to see if there are problems with CIFS.

Heres the link to the post that I had running on Linux Questions about smb and cifs: Link here (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=278006)