NAS notes

In article <1e2ec1cf4f.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <4fcfb271cbdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well isn't this interesting (not)

I've just collected together some material on the Vista laptop to
shove over the network to the NAS HD.

The NAS HD has just over 393 Gig free, and I'm trying to shift 19.3
Gigs from the Laptop to the NAS drive and it won't do it, saying:

"There is not enough space on disknnn."(It is the NAS drive) "19.4 GB
is needed to copy this item, Delete or move files so you have enough
space."

So the NAS drive has 393 Gigs free, and the Laptop itself has, 61 Gigs
free.

Doh!

Any thoughts chaps as it defeats me.

I would suspect permissions. Can you transfer ANYTHING from Vista?

Yes, I've just transferred a 1 MByte graphic file, followed by an 88 MB
directory followed by a 106 MB directory, followed by a 2.1 Gig directory
No problems no moans.

Permissions I cannot understand, the whole mess makes no sense whatsoever
I just wing it and hope for the best.
I don't know who at MS came up with that rubbish, but hanging is far to
good for them.

If not, then make sure that the username and password you logged onto
Vista with match a username and password on the NAS, and that that
username has permission to write where you are trying to transfer.

Files come and go (See above) just this big one won't play ball.

Error messages for network operations are often misleading. The
software was often written with only local discs in mind so "the write
failed" gets translated as the only cause the author could think of,
i.e. "not enough space".

Treat any error message as "it didn't work", and go through the
possible causes, not just the one reported.

The message specifically notes there isn't enough space on the NAS disk
name.

disknnn suggests you have the drive mapped. This tells Windows it is a
local drive, so the error messages from the network layer can't reach
the copying software, making the abvove scenario more likely. You need
to check which username and password the drive was mapped using - they
are used at the NAS end for access control checking.

I've also unmapped that drive, but no change.
Now remapped for convenience.
Alan

As I don't use any passwords or usernames, I'm the only one and
administrator using the machine.

Before I posted this, I took the whole directory that contains the problem
file, and dragged that from Vista to the NAS drive, the moan about needing
19.4 GB came up then vanished and the transfer started, mind you it was
going to take 4+ hours so it said.

I created a new directory inside the one containing the problem file,
dragged it into the new directory, then attempted to get that directory to
the NAS, no go not enough space...

At present, I'm copying the problem out to another directory on the HD,
but that'll take a while, so I'll post later.

Thanks for the thought though.

Cheers
Dave S

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