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[ralphl <lachenmaier@xxxxxxxxx>]

my Canon camera mounts under ~/.gvfs.  In general things work.  I can
copy most files to my hard disk.  However, like Post 202, I cannot copy
large files in the 2GB and above range.  The copy starts normally, but
if I use System Monitor (graphical interface) to monitor the system, I
see the copy function gradually fill all of real memory, then start to
fill swap space.  Finally it just aborts.  It appears the copy function
is not emptying the buffer to disk, but just filling it.  The problem
happens on both ubuntu 12.04 (gvfs 1.2.1) and 14.04 (gvfs 1.20.1).  I am
not sure this is related to the Samba problem, but gvfs still is not
working correctly.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923

Title:
  nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share

Status in GVFS:
  Fix Released
Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gvfs source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in gvfs source package in Raring:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Impact:
  copies from/to samba share often end up hanging

  Test case:
  - visit a smb location in nautilus
  - copies data from/to it (some non trivial directories makes the issues easier to trigger)
  - the copy should complete without hanging

  Regression potentiel:
  Check that nautilus is still working correctly and than you don't have issues copying data from/to remote locations

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  Problem
  =======
  Copying files to and from samba shares (this includes Windows shares) is unreliable in Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 when using nautilus' integrated samba client (gvfs-smb): The copy randomly hangs after a few files or a few GB.

  Workaround
  ==========
  Until gvfs-smb is fixed, use the kernel samba client (cifs) that works reliably, is faster, but needs some terminal commands to get going:
  # sudo -s
  # mkdir /mnt/cifs
  # mount -t cifs -o user=YOUR_SAMBA_USER -o uid=YOUR_LINUX_USER "//SAMBA_SERVER/SAMBA_SHARE" /mnt/cifs
  It will ask for you password, you can then access the shared files at /mnt/cifs.

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