Re: Major frustrations with "Path is too deep" copy problems...help??

Hi, Rick

Yes, I've seen Sahil's blog on that issue and seen/read just about
every post therein. That's where I got the ideas on the TcpAckFrequency
and some of the other helps. I also read that 80-pin cable swap idea,
but have hesitated on that because it happens on both machines in both
directions, and large transfers from those machines to *other* machines
work correctly. That is, large files copied from new machine A to new
machine B (or vice-versa) fail, but a large file copy from A to old
machine C, or B to old machine C (or vice-versa) works. If the 80-pin
cable were at fault, I can't fathom all those copies would work.

As an aside, I'm amazed at the "groundfire" if you will that his post
inspired. It seems lots of people have a varying flavor of this
problem, and many if not most of them seem to have started right when
XP SP2 was released...Hmmm...

I haven't tried mounting the share as a local drive letter on the
source machine. What the heck; couldn't hurt. I will probably try
replacing the router next. The new machines support gigabit Ethernet,
and I wonder if there is some peculiarity in the protocol between the
NIC and the router that the router doesn't recognize or handle
properly, but that only happens in communications relating to setups
for large file transfers.

That's another interesting aside; the file copy will recognize the
presence of the file on the destination system and ask if you want to
overwrite it; only after the actual data transfer has started does the
hang occur (it occurs whether the file was there and overwritten or was
not present at all). Makes me wonder if there something the SMB session
setup that's being lost....keep thinking about that router, I guess..

Continued thanks for your suggestions and help. Anyone else still
following this thread is welcome to jump in, too!!


-David

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