[plug] Samba server weirdness- uploads work, downloads don't

[Mark O'Shea]

On Tue, September 21, 2004 2:26 pm, Cameron Patrick said:
> I have a Samba server which is playing up.  I can upload files to it,
> but can't download files from it.  Downloading either stalls with no
> data transferred, or stalls after downloading a file of the right
> length but with a bunch of binary goop at the start of it.  This same
> behaviour occurs when the client is various versions of Samba, KDE
> Konqueror and Windows Explorer on XP.  (The latter crashed entirely
> when trying to copy a file.)
>
> I've looked in /etc/samba/smb.conf, and it looks essentially identical
> to two working machines (except for the share definitions pointing to
> different locations).  I tried upgrading samba to the latest version
> in Debian unstable, and reinstalling every samba-related package I
> could see, but nothing seems to have helped.
>
> It's not a straight network problem, tcpspray and ssh work fine to
> this machine, even for large transfers.
>
> Any suggestions on other things to try?
>
Hi Cameron,

I've never had this behaviour myself, but have you tried turning logging
up high and seeing if anything turns up?

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Mark O'Shea