http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619787 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619787#c0 Summary: Samba Causes Too Many Files In Use Error On Windows 7 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Samba AssignedTo: samba-maintainers@SuSE.de ReportedBy: malv_star@hotmail.com QAContact: samba-maintainers@SuSE.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.5.9-0.1.1 Firefox/3.5.9 When copying a large amount of small files between Windows 7 and Samba, Windows continually pops up the error message "Too many files are currently in use", prompting the user to retry copying. The retry attempt usually works, but the continual nature of the notifications can be irritating. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Store a large number of files (large and small) on a Samba share 2. Select all of the files to be copied. 3. Copy and paste those files to a location on a Windows 7 machine Actual Results: Continual notifications appear in Windows prompting the user to retry copying due to "Too many files" being in use. Expected Results: The copy proceeds and completes silently. This issue has been confirmed in the Samba 3.4 series and details can be found at the following URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/462172 The issue was fixed in March 2010 by the Samba team, but does not appear to have made it into SuSE 11.2 yet. It should be a simple fix. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.