[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMB transfer failure

[David Brodbeck]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Michelle Knight <michelle at msknight.com>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Server - 151a Sept 2011.
> Client - Xubuntu 32 bit.
>
> SMB share from the server, (ZFS published) is mounted to the client.
>
> Any attempt to copy a file to the server, greater than around 100,000 bytes
> results in the client reporting an I/O error.
>
> A file of 91,738 bytes will transfer.
> A file of 103,857 will fail.
>
> Clients version of mount is from "util-linux 2.19.1 (with libblkid and
> selinux
> support)"
>
> Any ideas where the fault may lie please?
>

One tip: make sure you're mounting it as 'cifs' and not 'smbfs'.  I don't
know if Xubuntu is still shipping smbfs alongside cifs, but smbfs is quite
out of date at this point and probably buggy.

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington