I have seen poor results with CIFS over wide area network (in general, outside Jenkins). My excuse was that CIFS is a file system sharing protocol, which makes it less suitable for a wide area network transport. You might consider using a different transport (http, ftp, or scp).
Mark Waite >________________________________ > From: Richard Otter <r...@columbia.edu> >To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:28 PM >Subject: Resend: Publish Over CIFS Plugin fails when used over internet > > > >This is a show stopper for us. Any ideas? >Thanks! > > >I have started to use the "Publish Over CIFS Plugin" because I have tried to >move some of our build machines to Amazon EC2. >I formerly just did a file copy to our Windows server file share from the >Windows slaves because they were running as users with the correct >permissions. >Anyway, in the new environment where some builds may be coming from nodes >running as non-domain users, I figured I'd use this plugin with the "Always >transfer from master" option. > >It works, sort of. >Local build machines transfer the file reliably. However, from Amazon EC2 the >transfers never finish. > >My "build artifact" (the setup.exe file) is about 150 MB. I can't get anything >to transfer bigger than 88 MB using the plugin. In the morning, the build >progress is bright red. I cancel the job and see: > >18:16:10CIFS: Connecting from host [usherapp42] >18:16:10CIFS: Connecting with configuration [PT-SoftwareDev] ... >09:26:03CIFS: Disconnecting configuration [PT-SoftwareDev] ... >09:26:03ERROR: Exception when publishing, exception message [null] >09:26:03Build step 'Send build artifacts to a windows share' changed build >result to FAILURE >09:26:03Build step 'Send build artifacts to a windows share' marked build as >failure > >The wiki for the plugin talks about parameters like “Retries” that I don’t see >in either the Jenkins config or the job config. >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google >Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/dti8k78ysg4/unsubscribe?hl=en. >To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Jenkins Users" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
