samba - Apr 2001 - handling huge files

Dear!

I read at http://uk.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.0.7.html this:

  -Samba now supports the Windows NT specific SMB requests.  This
  -means that on platforms that are capable Samba now presents a
  -64 bit view of the filesystem to Windows NT clients and is
  -capable of handling very large files.

How? I tried to handle large files, but I can not. 4Gbyte file or less
worked only.
I made some huge files on ext2 and reiser filesystem too ( about 5Gbyte ).
The Linux can handle them ( not all progs, but main utils can - ls, od,
etc ). On NT workstations I saw the files, but their size were 5 - 4 1Gbyte. If
I tried to copy a huge file from NT to Linux, it stoped at
4Gbyte. There is not problem from NT to NT of course!
What did I configure wrong? The system was: RedHat7.1 ( 2.4.2 kernel ), ext2
and reiser filesystem, samba 2.0.7, NT workstations.
Please help me, because I need for this feature!
Thanx!
Attila

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Veghelyi Attila wrote:
> What did I configure wrong? The system was: RedHat7.1 ( 2.4.2 kernel ),
ext2
> and reiser filesystem, samba 2.0.7, NT workstations.
It's a problem with configure, it doesn't detect that you have a system
that supports large files (It is usually called Large File Support, the
next step may very well be Huge File Support ... 128 bit filesizes? :)

Upgrade to samba 2.2.0, or if you must run 2.0.7 try applying this patch:
http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/samba-2.0.7-lfs-configtest.patch

Something like this:
	cd samba-2.0.7/source
	patch -p2 < ../../samba-2.0.7-lfs-configtest.patch
	autoconf
	rm config.cache
	./configure (whatever options you normally use)

Not that if you use smbfs it does not support LFS (yet, experimental &
dangerous patches exist), but smbclient does.

/Urban