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It worked last week …
About a week ago, I was able to successfully mount my home directory, which
is on a Linux box, to the Windows XP box we have, using samba [1]. This week
however, it's acting strangly.
Map the drive; it's successful. Try listing some files …
> Z:\>dir
> Volume in drive Z is ?
> Volume Serial Number is 2E0D-011F
>
> Directory of Z:\
>
> File Not Found
>
> Z:\>dir *.jpg
> Volume in drive Z is ?
> Volume Serial Number is 2E0D-011F
>
> Directory of Z:\
>
> 11/12/2000 09:32 PM 15,678 seanroy.jpg
> 09/05/2002 11:00 PM 7,134 flower.thumb.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:32 PM 77,731 Untitled-4.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:33 PM 130,531 Untitled-5.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:33 PM 137,230 Untitled-9.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:33 PM 143,943 Untitled-20.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:33 PM 165,048 Untitled-27.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:33 PM 128,356 Dad & elephant.jpg
> 04/28/2003 11:33 PM 143,821 sean at desk.jpg
> 9 File(s) 949,472 bytes
> 0 Dir(s) 8,011,644,928 bytes free
>
> Z:\>
>
Like I said—wierd. Short directory listings are fine; anything too large (and
I'm still trying to define “too large”) and it simply hangs. But it's not
like a massive amount of data causes it to hang—I viewed a 40M Quicktime
movie so it's not that. And the behavior just started this week. A week ago—
it was fine.
I even went so far as to download, configure, install and run the latest
version of samba; it still exhibits the same problem.
Like I said—wierd.
Then again, this is Windows we're talking about …
[1]
http://www.samba.org/
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