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Using Gutsy, smb, a network hard disk (Maxtor Shared Storage Plus
500Gb).
I have every kind of files on the network share, and on another machine running
Windows XP. I can see and use every files on both, except for audio/video files
on the network share only. So, I can read a .pdf file on the network share and
on the xp share, but not a .mpg or .mp3 on the network share.
If I use my Windows computer to copy a .mp3 file from the share to the XP
computer, then , I can read it from Linux.
The bug is that I can list (ls) those files correctly, but can't do anything
with them (read,write,modify,rename,copy) , not because of an error or unset
permissions, but because it just HANGS. For example, if I have multiple kinds
of files in the same directory, and want to copy a .pdf file using Ubuntu, no
problem, but a .mp3 or .mpg file would hang at the file copy dialog without
even starting the file copy and hang there indefinitely (same for renaming the
file or just accessing it's properties). I have to click 'cancel' or sometimes
hard close the window because it doesn't respond anymore.
The strangest thing is that I CAN use my Windows computer to JUST rename the
file extension from .mp3 to anything else (ex: .ttt) and then it works right
away in Ubuntu!!!. I can then copy the file with Ubuntu and then rename it back
to .mp3.
This happens just with audio/video files of some kinds (mp3,mpg,avi,wav,wma).
Have not tried other audio/video formats.
But ALL other files are OK.
I could use this workaround to just copy files but I wanted to access them
directly from Ubuntu to play them remotely with Movie Player and Totem Player.
Those applications of course hang also if I use them to access those files
directly from the network share.
I have tried this on 2 other Maxtor network storages and it does the same.
Tried using the File Browser logged as a user, tried command-line as root, and
tried using access to shares with smb and cifs. all do the same.
Network shares permissions (and all other permissions for that matter) are all
RW for every users (not so normally , but did it for testing purposes).
## Ubuntu 7.1 Gutsy, updated. Maxtor storage firmware updated.
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Done some other tests, with still the same results. See pictures attachments.
I have to add that when renaming the file extension back to '.avi' , it
"freezes" at the 'renaming progress window' for a while (a few seconds)
and then actually do the renaming. SEE 5-long.png , picture attachment.
** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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network storage - cannot access audio/video files only
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180829
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