samba large files

[Kevin Krieser]

My workaround was to install SFU from Microsoft on my XP Pro computer,
which allowed me to share drives from Windows with NFS.

This was my only clean method of backing up to an external hard drive
that would work with both Windows and Linux, since the writable NTFS
support (Captive NTFS) had a limit of 960MB files.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Taylor, ForrestX
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:33 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: samba large files


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:07, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> [ mailman bug - so second sending ]
> 
> Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Vano Beridze um 9:02:
> 
> > I've got fedora core 1
> > 2.4.22-1.2197.nptl
> > 
> > samba-client-3.0.4-1.FC1
> > samba-common-3.0.4-1.FC1
> > 
> > I try to transfer large files above 2GB to a windows XP Share but 
> > the transfer is aborted and the partial file is uploaded to the
> share.
> > small files are ok.
> > 
> > How do I configure samba/os to allow large file transfers?
> 
> How do you actually mount the WinXP SMB share? Use
> 
> mount -t smbfs ......

That just uses smbmount.

ll /sbin/mount.smb*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Nov  6  2003 /sbin/mount.smb
-> ../usr/bin/smbmount
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Nov  6  2003
/sbin/mount.smbfs -> ../usr/bin/smbmount

It looks like the smb file system driver is limited to <2GB in the 2.4
kernel.  As a workaround, I usually rdesktop into a Windows machine and
pull the large file from the Linux machine.

I think that 2.6 has a larger limit, and I am testing it now on FC2, and
I'll report back here when it is finished.

Forrest





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