Only certain file types can be copied to Windows from Ubuntu
I hope this is in the right place. I've searched the forums, but searching didn't turn up anything.
If I am at my Ubuntu machine (12.04LTS) I can use the network to reach my other machines (mostly Windows 7) and "see" the shared directories. I attempted to copy several JPG files from Ubuntu to a shared Windows directory and got an error telling me "Error while copying 'Screenshot........JPG' to smb://prinserver/public_c/" and the "see more" provided "invalid argument".
On the Windows machine(s), if I 'push' a JPG to the Ubuntu machine it works, but the reverse fails. Text files, Document (.DOC) files, and all that type will transfer just fine.
I've done some experimenting and I find that I cannot transfer (so far) JPG, GIF, MP3. BUT, if I zip them up into either a .GZ or .ZIP file, I can transfer them and unzip at the Windows end.
Is there some weird network permissions thing at work here?
Bill
Been in computers since 1962; Windows computers almost gone now. Only 1 gaming machine left.
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