F18 problem moving directory data between machines

[Paul Erickson]

Hi Have Samba setup on my F14 and new install F18 machine, and while I 
can move large individual files between machines, when I try to move
directories between machines, the transfer will start but then locks up. 
A Google search reveals that this has been a known problem for some
time, but so far I have seen no solution posted. It appears to have 
something to do with nautilus.

Is anyone aware of any solutions to this problem?

Thanks in advance.

cheers, Paul

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 19:17 -0800, Paul Erickson wrote:
> Hi Have Samba setup on my F14 and new install F18 machine, and while I 
> can move large individual files between machines, when I try to move
> directories between machines, the transfer will start but then locks up. 
> A Google search reveals that this has been a known problem for some
> time, but so far I have seen no solution posted. It appears to have 
> something to do with nautilus.
>
> Is anyone aware of any solutions to this problem?

Don't use Nautilus? There are plenty of ways to copy directories other
than with GUI tools, e.g. cp, rsync, tar, cpio, ...

poc

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 04 March 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> Don't use Nautilus? There are plenty of ways to copy directories other
> than with GUI tools, e.g. cp, rsync, tar, cpio, ...

Or some other-than-Nautilus GUI tool.  Nautilus is semi-okay as a file
browser, but is too simple for proper file management.  I found emelfm2
to be a good alternative.

[Paul Erickson]

On 03/04/2013 04:20 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 04 March 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> > Don't use Nautilus? There are plenty of ways to copy directories other
> > than with GUI tools, e.g. cp, rsync, tar, cpio, ...
>
> Or some other-than-Nautilus GUI tool.  Nautilus is semi-okay as a file
> browser, but is too simple for proper file management.  I found emelfm2
> to be a good alternative.

Thanks very much. I have it installed, just have to figure out how to 
get it to
point to the other computer on the network.

Thanks again for the time and attention.

cheers, Paul

[Tim]

Tim:
> > Or some other-than-Nautilus GUI tool.  Nautilus is semi-okay as a
> > file browser, but is too simple for proper file management.  I found
> > emelfm2 to be a good alternative.

Paul Erickson:
> Thanks very much. I have it installed, just have to figure out how to 
> get it to point to the other computer on the network.

If you're using NFS, and have autofs set up on the client, then you can
browse to /net/remote-computer-hostname/exported-directory-name.

There's probably something similar for Samba, but I found Samba so
irritating that I haven't used it for years (a Windows networking scheme
bludgeoned into Linux).

Other GUI tools, like the KDE Konqueror, which I haven't used for years,
let you use various different protocols to access remote shares, by
specifying the protocol before the path, rather like you do in a web
browser (e.g. http://example.com/ or ftp://example.com/).  I think Samba
used the smb:// prefix.

If you've mounted the remote share, then you just browse to the mount
point for it.