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

[Rennie]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>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?
>
>Cameron.
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Debian Testing? Samba 3.0.6-3? I've had the same issue. I thought it 
might be some thing to do with WinXP SP2 but was never able to pin it down.

Sorry, I'm no help, but I'm pretty sure my Debian system was also 
behaving in the manner you described.

It did come good when installed Samba from Woody but I didn't know how 
to keep that package held-back so just 'apt-get remove samba' and used 
another box for file serving.

Cheers,

Rennie