samba and big files question 7193
I run a PC with AMD64 3400+ 2.8Ghz CPU (one cpu), with 1GB RAM. It can ( as...
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:45:55 -0700,
a lot in great detail
Hello Douglas,
thanks a great deal for your detailed response. I read and understood it but it needs some time to sink in.
Before this thread escalates into a full-blown, foolproof and highly professional solution, let me make my requirements (or the lack thereof) a bit more clear.
1. The webserver is just bought webspace, and (unencrypted) ftp is the only access option.
2. The people using the windows clients are graphics artists and they don't know (and don't want to know) poo about computers. Dragging a file into a folder is something I've had to talk them through on the phone at times, and it's the maximum I expect from them. "It doesn't work" is the only error description I ever get. I've found the method of just ftp-"mounting" a Windows directory onto a server to be unreliable and buggy (maybe it's become better by now, this is Win98SE). Also it takes chances with the other content of the entire web service, not just the "exchange" folder. Samba runs just fine here, that's why I'd like to take the route I've outlined.
3. I'm aware that partial-file issues can occur at several places along the path, not only on the windows-(samba)-linux connection. However, customer access to the web-served documents is infrequent and is usually initiated by a phone call of the sort, "check the web in about half an hour". Customers won't mind to just re-download a corrupted file.
4. The danger of a file being yanked away from under a user during download is not an issue since files usually just keep piling up until a project is finished and then get deleted.
5. I know and love rsync, but it is not an option.
Hey; I tried posting this on comp.mail.misc and have yet to receive an answer. Hopefully, someone here will know: I'm transferring my domain to a different company that will set up...
To me it looks as if all I need to know (on the samba server side) when a file has been received in full, so that the transfer can be initiated. I haven't found anything in the samba docs, but maybe there are file locks I can check during the transfer.
Thank you, Chris. I guess I never thought about the aspiration of this desktop environment to be efficient (KDE is greedy) and thus re-draw ele- ments on the screen rather than set...
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Thanks for all the detailed suggestions (did you just type in those shell scripts, or are they part of a solution to a similar problem you did before?), but they don't apply because
1. only server visible from outside is a remote web server to which 2. data can only be transferred with ftp.
Of course the whole "aging" scheme could be done on the web server with ftp commands, but I really don't think it is necessary.
robert
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