samba error

[Rushank]

Hi,

I get error when I tried to copy a file from samba shared drive to local PC.

I get an error "Network name or Device is no longer available"

When I map the drive I can see the files but cut/paste or copy does not work.

Any clue..?

[harry d brown jr]

Sounds like a PC issue. Have you tried to just "drag" it?

what kind of OS on your PC do you have and does it happen on other PC's with different OS's on them?

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harry

[harry d brown jr]

Also, do you have read permission on these files?

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harry

[Helen French]

Hi,

Look like a PC NFS issue. First mount the remote share/directory as a local drive. Then try copying it.

HTH,
Shiju

[Rushank]

Hi,

There is no permission issue.
WIN2K is client I can map this drive and It shows the list. But drag/drop copy/paste or just copy command from th dos command gives the same error. What does it mean by PC NFS error ..? What else I can check on the Client side..?
Other thing is the shared directory on HP box is mounted from another HP server over NFS

I've configured MY pc for Microsoft Client.

[harry d brown jr]

Rushank,

Are you kidding by this statement ==> "Other thing is the shared directory on HP box is mounted from another HP server over NFS "

Basically you have an NFS mount to an NFS mount. I'm not too sure how supported this is. It sure adds a lot of network traffic. THe problem is that when you try to copy from the NFS mount that is NFS mounted is that it has no where on the middle server to place this temporary file.

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harry

[Sandip Ghosh]

Some good link you had requested in past
http://h200002.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpg28397/lpg28397.pdf

I lost the earlier thread.

Sandip

[harry d brown jr]

Rushank,

Maybe you should but samba server on the originating server, which we will call OrigServer. THen from your middle server, which we will call DataServer, mount the OrigServer using samba client. Then on your DataServer start the samba server showing your samba mounts to your OrigServer.

No Idea if it will work, but I guess it's worth a try if you can't have your PC's directly mount to your OrigServer.

live free or die
harry

[Helen French]

Hi Rushank,

I don't think the cascaded distributed mounting is supported ! Read the man pages of mount_nfs. This is not the proper way and that's why you are getting error.

Mount the drive directly from the orginal server will be the best option to try.

HTH,
Shiju

[Rushank]

Hi
May be I was not clear in my clarification..

samba server runs on X HP box and it is a NFS client. (The shared samba directory is exported by another server.)
From Client (Win98, WIN2K) I can map this drive and it shows all the files instanatly. It was working happily more than year but since last one week we are facing this problem.

[Craig Rants]

Are your PC's under SMS? Has anyone patched your PC's recently, you may or may not know.

You may want to look there as well.

GL,
C