We have a 8GB scsi disk on a samba server. If we look in the explorer on our NT clients, we see only 4GB disk space with 0 bytes used (seems to be a 32 Bit limit ?!). Is this a problem of samba or of the NT client ? Any solution available ? Thanks K.Konzept
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Klaus wrote:> We have a 8GB scsi disk on a samba server. If we look in the explorer on > our NT clients, we see only 4GB disk space with 0 bytes used (seems to be > a 32 Bit limit ?!). Is this a problem of samba or of the NT client ? > Any solution available ?To see more then 4 GB of disk space free under NT Samba needs to support the NT-specific RPC calls. These calls are not supported in the current version but, IIRC, are implemented in Samba 2.0 (still in beta). It shouldn't cause you any problems since you can still use all the disk space, YMMV... my recommendation would be to wait until Samba 2.0 leaves beta (very soon now) and just deal with it until then. Best, Sean ------------------------------------------ Sean E. Millichamp, Consultant Ingematics - A Division of Compu-Aid, Inc.
Klaus, On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:00:26 +1100, Klaus wrote:>We have a 8GB scsi disk on a samba server. If we look in the explorer on >our NT clients, we see only 4GB disk space with 0 bytes used (seems to be >a 32 Bit limit ?!). Is this a problem of samba or of the NT client ? >Any solution available ?If this is really a problem for you: update to Samba 2.x as soon as this makes sense. Display of disk sizes above 4 GB is not supported in the 1.x series. I personally limit the displayed free disk space always to a maximum of 2047 MB to prevent applications with signed integers becoming nuts. Hasta la vista, Robert -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Robert.Dahlem@frankfurt.netsurf.de Radio Bornheim - 2:2461/332@fidonet +49-69-4930830 (ZyX, V34) 2:2461/326@fidonet +49-69-94414444 (ISDN X.75) ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Klaus, > > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:00:26 +1100, Klaus wrote: > > >We have a 8GB scsi disk on a samba server. If we look in the explorer > on > >our NT clients, we see only 4GB disk space with 0 bytes used (seems to > be > >a 32 Bit limit ?!). Is this a problem of samba or of the NT client ? > >Any solution available ?Two possibilities - if your client has trouble, you can use: max disk size (G) which gives the (unbelievable) max disk size which you can set low for a client unable to read big disks, but you can keep writing past that size limit (don't know exactly what happens when you really fill it up, whether you then finally get a good "disk full" message or waht. If the server is offering up the wrong size (how about half what it should), you might use: dfree command and write a short script that parses the df command and multiplies by two. (Left as a simple exercise :) (descriptions found in "man smb.conf") Cheers, Bill