Smbfs 2 giga limit ?

[David Balazic]

Hi!

I am trying to copy a large file to a SMB share and I get a
"File size limit exceeded" error when 2 gigabytes are reached.
I have red hat linux 9 with the latest updates (kernel-2.4.20-31.9)
Server is windows XP pro SP2.

I read on the net, that the smbfs module had such a limit.
Is this still true ?

Here is what I do :

# mount  -t smbfs -o username=me,password=secret //xp1/backup /mnt/1
# cd /mnt/1
# dd if=/dev/hda of=hda_try2.img
File size limit exceeded
# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     2147483647 Mar 22 13:36 hda_try2.img

Any solution ? (besides not using files larger than 2 GB )

Regards,
David Balažic

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