Network fails when transfer files from windows

Hello everybody
I recently bought a MacMini for the task of recording some video signal that comes in from a capture card. Everything goes well in that department, I end up getting a series of video files of 800-900Mb each one. I configured the file sharing and checked the smb sharing option.
Everything seems to go alright. We i go to a Windows computer and browse the macmini in the network and try to open a file or copy it to my windows computer I always get E/S errors, like if the network fails to complete the transfer. If the file is 100MB I only get the first 10MB or just error (like the image attached).
I've tried to use another Mac as client to copy files and there the transfer seems to go ok.
I have two suspects in here, the network card and the smb service. What do you think?
Thanks in advance
Xavier

Your Mac's hard drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (it has to be to boot OS X) but WIndows computers cannot read or write to Mac OS Extended unless there are third party drivers installed. On the other hand your PC is almost certainly formatted NTFS and while your Mac can read NTFS is cannot write to it without third party drivers installed. Both the Mac and PC can read and write to drives formatted FAT32, but there are distinct limits in FAT32 file names, etc. so it is not commonly used except on removable devices such as thumb drives.
If you have a San Disk or other thumb drive lying around plug it into the Mac and copy the files to it. Then plug it into your PC and it will be able to read them.

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