File not found errors during CIFS copy to remote RHEL share

[Les Mikesell]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> So, to your point, arguably, SMB/CIFS seems to be replicating the
> Windows Explorer behavior, even when not using the GUI to copy files.
> 
> Seems like this is arguably a bug in the implementation, since clearly
> the Windows file system supports filenames and folders with leading
> periods. It is just not clear to me if this is a bug in F8 or in RHEL or
> both.
> 
> I have gone ahead and committed a bug against F8's Samba:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427951
> 
> I'll have to talk to my SysAdmin and see if he will let me connect via
> NFS as an alternative in the mean time.

It sounds like someone might have added:
veto files = /.*/
to smb.conf.

But if ssh works, why don't you just use scp or
rsync -av -essh source_file_or_dir  user at otherhost:/path
Or you can enter ssh://hostname/path in nautilus if you like a GUI file 
browser.

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