> The only question I would be able to come up with Fran, is:
> Whats the posibility that the login thru the samba server has a 
> timeout that roughly corresponds to that amount of data transmitted?


Hrmm...excellent thought. Let's do some timings and see if it looks
suspicious.  When I run it on the one I've been testing with, I get:

real    2m3.443s at 755M data.

Then just for comparison I test on another large share on the same
machine and it fails at:
 
real    2m47.569s at 1.1G data.

and a third....

real    3m4.338s at 744M data

So, doesn't seem to be either a set amount of data nor a set amount of
time.  So what's left?  I was watching 'top' output and it didn't seem
to be hitting physical limits.  Set number of files?

At any rate, yes this is rather far off-topic here at this point. 
Thanks for your help - lets hope my posts to Samba lists on this issue
over the past three days will trigger someone's memory.

Thanks for your help,
Fran



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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
fran AT cis.uab DOT edu
(205) 934-0653