I have a samba share running on my server (just an Intel N100 Mini PC). It’s running Fedora Atomic and my desktop is also running Fedora Atomic.
While it’s good enough to watch videos on, reliability when it comes to uploading files to it has been very poor. The connection ends up timing out after a few minutes of uploading.
I found that using rsync to upload files to it has been a lot more reliable.
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If you dont care about permissions, use NFS. If you need protected shares, use SMBv3, force blocking of SMBv1 protocol.
I have a mix of both NFS and SMBv3 shares between NAS, Windows 11, Ubuntu, and MacOS machines. It can be done, not too difficult unless you are trying to mount things weird in proxmox or something.
I’ve never had any issue with file transfers apart from being a bit slower than NFS. The main issues I have with it is lack of Unix file permissions and not allowing all characters in file names.
Unless you need compatibility with windows, you are better off using NFS or SSHFS.
NFS lacks security unless it’s NFSv4 paired with Kerberos AFAIK.
In debian/ubuntu I just use the file browser and connect via sftp or whatever. I save the password and put the location in my sidebar for easy access. It works great for playing videos and other uses, although might want to setup jellyfin or similar for videos.
It’s running Fedora Atomic and my desktop is also running Fedora Atomic.
Then why are you using Samba? It’s primarily for Windows. Use nfs or sshfs. Or if you’re running a media server, you could run an additional file management service like filebrowser.
Could be this https://omnitech.net/reference/2023/03/15/0x8007003b-timeout-copying-large-file-to-samba-server/
Or could be if you copy it via Nautilus GUI, people have suggests doing a straight cp from CLI has better results than Nautilus.
I have the same issue with sftp and webdav. (20GB zip file)
Maybe a buffer issue, does scp work?
Smbfs by autofs for decades. 0 issues.
In general, follow samba’s tunjng guidelines, particularly what not to set.
If it’s both *nix, why not NFS? Even Win10 with UTF-8 works well with my NFS server. These days my SMB server is only for Win7 and Android.
Rsync will always be faster than SMB. NFS will be faster than both other options. It’s a protocol thing. You should tune your SMB config properly though, as there are tweaks that can benefit throughput greatly.
I’ve been using smb protocol for years. NFS is great when it works, but something about my network makes it unreliable or inconsistent between devices.
Smb has never caused me any problems.
