Mint 14 Nemo freezing up

[booman]

yeah I need to do that!
other types of copying/pasting besides to and from my server.
I could try from my Windows partitions which is on a separate hard drive.
Non SSD, he he

[ThunderRd]

How are those machines connected? Is it an NFS server?

Do you have the same problem when trying to copy the same file in a terminal using cp?

[booman]

nope, I'm using SMB for copying files.
I am interesting in using NFS, but until now SMB has not been a problem.
Its and old fedora 8 32-bit machine.

I havn't tried copying via terminal. I might try that out.
How do I connect via SMB over terminal?

[ThunderRd]

I'm not quite sure why you chose SAMBA as your protocol. Did you have windows boxen on your network at one time, 'cause that is what it was designed for, connecting windows machines to linux machines.

I'm sure there are better/faster ways of doing it between linux machines, though. NFS, SSH, and a few others are fast and mature.

But as for your question, I've never done it, but I would think that is you have the directories that you want to share advertised in samba.conf, you should be able to create a mountpoint on the client machine and copy that way. The only way I use samba is for my windows machine to access the linux host. I would rather use NFS, because it's faster, but I bought Win7 Pro, which does not provide NFS [Ultimate does, but at the time I didn't know that.]

[Aedan]

SSH is often the slowest way of sharing files. While lots of people claim that NFS is faster than SMB, those who have done much in the way of benchmarking have found that NFS and SMB are generally similar in speed. Now the implementation of NFS and SMB you use will have a massive impact on your speeds!

One example of testing done is at http://www.hob.de/downloads/NFS_CIFS.pdf

[ThunderRd]

Originally Posted by Aedan

While lots of people claim that NFS is faster than SMB, those who have done much in the way of benchmarking have found that NFS and SMB are generally similar in speed.

Is this true for both windows to linux networks as well as solely linux networks?

I got turned off long ago with SMB because I had a lot of trouble getting it configured, wanted to go to NFS but discovered I would need a closed-source app for the windows clients, and finally got SMB to work. It's adequate, but I've always felt I was missing out.

[booman]

I have mostly Windows machines connecting to my Fedora 8 server, so I don't want to turn off SAMBA.
But when I was using Mint 13... never had any problems. Probably because it was using Nautilus instead of Nemo.

I'm still going to try reinstalling Nemo.
I'll also do a test in Openbox with Nemo to see if there any differences.

[booman]

Ok, I removed Nemo and installed Nautilus, guess what? It works fine now. I know Nautilus is bloated and uses a lot of resources, but it definitely copies my large files better than Nemo from my Fedora 8 server.

[chrisbard]

Originally Posted by booman

After reading a couple of forum posts on Mint forums its anytime you use Nemo for transferring files. Flash drive, over the network, folder to folder.
Try copying a large file and let me know if it finish's by its-self.

No one has complained about copying from DVD or CD ROM.
I have installed a 2 DVD game with no slowness and even created folders from it. No problems there.

Sorry for this post but by reading the intro I remembered Norton interface for DOS!

[Daniel ~]

I used that for a year or two myself! ":O}