Hi all, I've been trying to use samba on a linux system as a backup server by exporting large cheap ATA disks as backup volumes to Win2K and WinXP systems. However, when the backup reaches 2^31 bytes, the backup aborts with a "Media Error: Unknown Error" on the W2K machine. I've tried both the release tar ball 2.2.2 of samba and the SAMBA_2_2 CVS branch (as of 1/26/2002). I found a couple of messages in the mail archive that talked about similiar problems and according to a thread "smdb 2 GB limit" there was a bugfix commited to HEAD and SAMBA_2_2. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be fixing my problem. The server is running RH 7.1 w/ glibc 2.2.4 and kernel 2.4.17. I get LFS=yes and "checking enable of large files"=yes during configure. So at least it thinks that it is supposed to support large files. I also wrote a C program to run on the RH server to read/write large files and it works OK too. Also sum, ls and the other standard tools work fine with large files on the server. Does anybody know what is going on? Thanks, Jens Petersohn
Jens Petersohn
2002-Jan-27 08:58 UTC
[RESOLVED] W2K NTBackup 2GB limit to SAMBA_2_2 server
Well, it turns out that SAMBA_2_2 does fix the bug. I routinely overinstall new samba releases into the same directory tree (/usr/local/samba) as the old release. Somewhere along the line samba switched the smbd and nmbd binaries to sbin/ from bin/. The startup script that I had placed into the etc directories however was still looking for the old binaries (and found them). So eventhough I was using SAMBA_2_2 client tools (as verified by smbclient -V), the server binary was still the old (probably 2.0.9) binary. rm -rf'ing bin and sbin, make install and fixing the startup script resolved the problem. Thanks, Jens Petersohn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Petersohn" <jkp@riker.nailed.org> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:16 AM Subject: W2K NTBackup 2GB limit to SAMBA_2_2 server> Hi all, > > I've been trying to use samba on a linux system as a backup server by > exporting large cheap ATA disks as backup volumes to Win2K and WinXP > systems. > However, when the backup reaches 2^31 bytes, the backup aborts with a > "Media Error: Unknown Error" on the W2K machine. > I've tried both the release tar ball 2.2.2 of samba and the SAMBA_2_2 > CVS branch (as of 1/26/2002). I found a couple of messages in the mail > archive that talked about similiar problems and according to a thread > "smdb 2 GB limit" there was a bugfix commited to HEAD and SAMBA_2_2. > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be fixing my problem. > The server is running RH 7.1 w/ glibc 2.2.4 and kernel 2.4.17. > I get LFS=yes and "checking enable of large files"=yes during configure. > So at least it thinks that it is supposed to support large files. > I also wrote a C program to run on the RH server to read/write large > files and it works OK too. Also sum, ls and the other standard tools > work fine with large files on the server. > > Does anybody know what is going on? > > Thanks, > > Jens Petersohn > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >