HI Samba Admin's I have a share called "archive". The disksize on the HP is 7GB, my NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 says it's 4GB. Can anyone help me? Best regards Thomas Hansen PS: Please reply to tmh@manbw.dk
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 tmh/Copenhagen@manbw.dk wrote:> HI Samba Admin's > > I have a share called "archive". The disksize on the HP is 7GB, my NT > 3.51 and NT 4.0 says it's 4GB. > > Can anyone help me? >Hi, W95 would report it as 2GBytes. It's a fundamental limitation of a 32-bit integer: unsigned = 4 GBytes, signed = 2 GBytes. You will have to partition the drive to make all of it useable by the M$ products. I think it might be distinctly dodgy to use it as it is. Regards, --- Peter Blake ppb@hft.co.uk ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk
I have sucessfully shared out a big drive (7.5GB) without any problems for a long time to W95 and NT4. (Was also sharing it out using netatalk, had to make a mod to netatalk though) Samba was 1.9.17. Unfortunately the linux box is no more, so I can not say what it will do using 1.9.18. Johan>Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 08:58:58 +0000 (GMT/BST) >From: Peter Blake <ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk> >To: tmh@manbw.dk > >Subject: Re: Disk size on my NT >Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980214085520.6505A-100000@ka.blake.org.uk> > >On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 tmh/Copenhagen@manbw.dk wrote: > >> HI Samba Admin's >> >> I have a share called "archive". The disksize on the HP is 7GB, myNT>> 3.51 and NT 4.0 says it's 4GB. >> >> Can anyone help me? >> > >Hi, > >W95 would report it as 2GBytes. It's a fundamental limitation of a 32-bit >integer: unsigned = 4 GBytes, signed = 2 GBytes. > >You will have to partition the drive to make all of it useable by the M$ >products. I think it might be distinctly dodgy to use it as it is. > >Regards, > > >--- >Peter Blake >ppb@hft.co.uk >ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk
Peter warned: | I don't dispute that you CAN share your >2GByte disc partition - my | personal experience of using large files (video editing - 100 to 1000 | MBytes) on partitions that are not correctly recognised by W95 is that the | files are sometimes corrupted. Looks like a new bug for win95: this was't part of WfW or 3.1 (I used to work for an image shop) Interestingly enough, the warning I found at MS (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q118/3/35.asp and http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q127/8/51.asp) spoke about dos fat filesystem limits.. Can you steer me to the right warning? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | davecb@hobbes.ss.org, canada.sun.com M2N 1Y3. 416-223-8968 | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb