12-08-2018, 08:34 PM
Thanks for the benefit of your time that you used to write this long post. You're probably right about the causes of Windows networking issues. I do know that it was a source of headaches for me when I was operating my on site repair business in Edmonton, AB. Sometimes the only way to resolve a customer's networking issues was to do a fresh install of Windows (it was XP at the time), which isn't the answer the customers wanted to hear.
During that time I went to a Microsoft event at the University of Calgary that was an overview of Vista just before it was released. The drive down was cool - I was drafting in a NASCAR type four car caravan down Queen Elizabeth II Highway (Alberta 2) and got my rusty Geo Metro sedan doing 130 km/h which it couldn't do by itself. Anyway, a MS product manager is giving a ~200 seat theatre an overview of the new OS and says, "And we've improved the networking in Windows Vista..." and the almost full room of technical types like me applauded before he could complete his sentence. Little did we know... :-(
MS would do far better to release feature updates at (at best) once a year and use the extra time/personpower to squash bugs - but where would the reward be for them in that? One of the bugs of capitalism - don't get me started... :-(
Anyway. I will try some of your suggestions when I have more time. You said,
The cause of that was the files on the target drive locking because of the transfer failure. (It's OK - you have a lot to read here in the forums and we all appreciate your help.) For now it seems to be working better - and almost all the files I wanted on the server are there. I'm now pretty much out of room there so the remaining ~500 GB will have to wait for my 'new' server to go into production in a week or two. When that happens a lot of the files on the current server will go onto the new one.
I'll see if I can do that by breaking the RAID array, putting one disc into the new server, and transferring them internally, eliminating network transfers. Sometimes transferring music files over my current network to the server resulted in files that wouldn't play. They were the correct size but all metadata was stripped and they wouldn't play in VLC. I'm ignorant of whether that was a Windows networking issue or just a networking issue but I want to avoid it, since even setting up the ~4 TB of files as a playlist in VLC to see if the metadata is there would take a long time (let alone listening to them all). ;-)
Thanks, everyone here, for your help. I appreciate it and like it that you're a friendly bunch of people here. All the best to you all.
During that time I went to a Microsoft event at the University of Calgary that was an overview of Vista just before it was released. The drive down was cool - I was drafting in a NASCAR type four car caravan down Queen Elizabeth II Highway (Alberta 2) and got my rusty Geo Metro sedan doing 130 km/h which it couldn't do by itself. Anyway, a MS product manager is giving a ~200 seat theatre an overview of the new OS and says, "And we've improved the networking in Windows Vista..." and the almost full room of technical types like me applauded before he could complete his sentence. Little did we know... :-(
MS would do far better to release feature updates at (at best) once a year and use the extra time/personpower to squash bugs - but where would the reward be for them in that? One of the bugs of capitalism - don't get me started... :-(
Anyway. I will try some of your suggestions when I have more time. You said,
Quote:The anomaly of VLC (which is cross-platform compatible) only playing a few seconds of a music file is caused by the same issue as well.
The cause of that was the files on the target drive locking because of the transfer failure. (It's OK - you have a lot to read here in the forums and we all appreciate your help.) For now it seems to be working better - and almost all the files I wanted on the server are there. I'm now pretty much out of room there so the remaining ~500 GB will have to wait for my 'new' server to go into production in a week or two. When that happens a lot of the files on the current server will go onto the new one.
I'll see if I can do that by breaking the RAID array, putting one disc into the new server, and transferring them internally, eliminating network transfers. Sometimes transferring music files over my current network to the server resulted in files that wouldn't play. They were the correct size but all metadata was stripped and they wouldn't play in VLC. I'm ignorant of whether that was a Windows networking issue or just a networking issue but I want to avoid it, since even setting up the ~4 TB of files as a playlist in VLC to see if the metadata is there would take a long time (let alone listening to them all). ;-)
Thanks, everyone here, for your help. I appreciate it and like it that you're a friendly bunch of people here. All the best to you all.