samba large files

[Taylor, ForrestX]

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