[Bug 920925] Re: smbclient put from standard input regularly fail with NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  smbclient put from standard input regularly fail with
  NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  One of the most common usages of smbclient is to let it read data from
  standard input and put this data onto a Windows (-like) share. There
  is a bug in smbclient which lets this fail regularly with the error
  NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT.

  Surprisingly, in oneiric x86-64, the smbclient package is affected by
  this problem (the ubuntu people didn't seem to test this basic
  functionality), and even more surprisingly, it hasn't been fixed for
  months now.

  The samba people obviously don't plan to do anything about it: the bug
  has been reported in September 2011, somebody has made patches to
  correct the problem, but the bug still has status "NEW".

  Therefore, I wanted to see what happens if this bug is reported here.
  I know many people who do their backup in production environment like

  tar ... | gzip (or other filters) | smbclient .. -c 'put - ...' ...

  I have to stress again that this technique is used widely, and that
  its very important that it works reliably; thus, something really
  should be done about the bug.

  The original bug report is here:

  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8498

  Regards,

  Binarus

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