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Message #154755
[Bug 1075923] Re: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share
Same problem in 15.10... will this ever be fixed?
When copying large files either to a Pen Drive or Network share
location, Files hangs and often needs to be killed.
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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
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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
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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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