Has anybody else encountered this: copying files from samba-shares freeze after a couple of files?

It only seems to happen on my Slackware laptop.
I can still browse the shared directories with Thunar, but the file copying freezes, and pushing cancel-button just shows "cancelling" but nothing happens. The "copying"-popup still stays there.

I tried to look at the logs (put log level to 8), but didn't find any clear reason.

Any suggestions how to proceed with debugging this?

Slackware is 14.1 with samba-4.1.0-i486-2.txz
The machine that has the samba-shares is Debian Jessie.

I have a question for you. Practically every day we see here support requests for failing CIFS/Samba transfers between two Linux machines. Why are you attempting to use a Windows protocol between two *nix machines?

Because there are two Windows-machines involved too - mine, and those Windows-machines my children have and which they use when visiting me.

Between two other Linux-machines (Sabayon, Debian) and the two Windows-machines (Vista, Windows7) that problem doesn't occur. (OK, win7 forgets the rights for accesses after an hour or so, but that's different problem .)

How are Windows machines relevant? Oh ... I get it. People think when they share a volume over Samba it "locks it down"? I have news for you, you can share it also over NFS, and FTP, and HTTP for read-only access, and whatever network filesharing protocol you need - simultaneously!

What version of XFCE/Thunar is your Sabayon system using? Thinking in terms of the Sabayon version may be newer which may have fixed some bugs leading to the issue.

Another thing to try is running Thunar from a terminal and see if you get any useful info when it hangs.

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I don't remember the Sabayon version, and I haven't used that machine for a while.
But yes, running Thunar from console may reveal something. Thanks.

Thunar was totally silent.

From what I am seeing other folks have had the same issue. For them gvfs-smb is hanging which in turn causes Thunar to hang. If they whack the gvfs-smb process, Thunar comes back to life. However that does nothing to help with your situation. Depending on where you look some people have said the gvfs issue was supposed to be fixed in 1.16.3 (the version included with 14.1). Looking at this bug report from ubuntu, things were supposedly fixed in gvfs 1.18. They mention a workaround using cifs from the kernel. May be worth a shot.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1075923

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Thanks a heap!