Re: Samba + external drives

koffiejunkie wrote:
> Right, I just finished doing some tests. Via NFS and FTP, to the
> external disc, the same thing happens. The copy runs fine (I was
> copying a 3.9GB ISO) for a random amount of time - shortest now was
> 300MB, longest was just under 3GB - and then the disc seem to get
> unplugged.
>
> Then, I repeated the tests, with samba, NFS and ftp, copying the same
> ISO to my home directory on the notebook, and this worked without a
> problem.
>
> I copied the file from the notebook's drive to the external drive - no
> problem.
>
> Then I tried the following. I ftp-ed to localhost, and did a "put
> file.iso" to the external drive. This worked 100% I did similar tests
> with nfs and smb, connecting to localhost and copying the file via the
> smb/nfs clients - al worked fine.
>
> I also did at least one failed and one successful each using the
> notebook's wireless instead of wired network, to rule out network
> hardware, and repeated all the tests from my second notebook (which runs
> Debian too).
>
> So it's just a mix of network and network copy that seems to cause
> problems.
>
> I hope that's better :-) Any ideas?

Some further info. I mentioned this problem to a colleague, and his first thought was that he has had some issues with KDE and Gnome's automount-type daemons. So I booted into a console, didn't log into KDE (although gdm was running), mounted the external disc by hand, and then copied lots of stuff via the network to it. It worked solidly for more than an hour. Then, while I had a DVD ISO copying, I logged into KDE and started writing a DVD (off the external disc). It fialed halfway through with K3B moaning that it couln't read the file. Looked back at the logs, external disc just got unplugged.

So it would seem the automount stuff is causing this. But why?

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