Samba-served network drive fails after a few MB

Hi,

I set up Debian Linux (which rocks, verily) awhile back and made it a Samba server on my home 100Mbit ethernet network. I've mapped a directory on the Linux box as a networked drive for my XP Pro (SP2) machine and can read and write files without problems -- usually.

My motivation for doing this was to use the big HD on the Linux box as a backup medium for my XP machine. Unfortunately, the backup fails after writing about 5GB.

I've run the backup several times, and it's failed at different points all between 5 and 6 GB. The same backup runs to completion (about 20GB in all) if I use my USB HD as the backup medium.

Any hints about what might be going on?

Many thanks,

Cliff

Can you manually copy big files to that network drive?

Is your backup program supposed to support network drives?

Can you see any error messages in the Samba logs?