hey..i hope this was also adressed at me.. well, i tried both, to do a smbclient //hostname/share -Tc localdir/file to copy the file ( >2 gbyte) to the unix machine. and i also tried to do a normal smbclient login and then to "get" the file. the smbclient -T starts to trunc the file, it's suddenly much smaller. the get in the smbclient shell let's the file growth infinte, until it fills the whole hdd (80Gbyte :-( ) any idea? (we got around it with having smaller backups, and doing most of the stuff with smbclient -T directly out of the main directorys, not the windows backup. but that's not really, what i want/like. thx patrick Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:37:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry@samba.org> To: Adnan lia <adnan@intradyn.com> Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: large files with 2.2.7a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Adnan Olia wrote:> even if that had been a very common subject already, i still have this > one big (litterary) problem. I want to backup our main school systems, > based on a Win2k fileserver, to a linux box with samba 2.2.7a and red > hat 7.3 with kernel 2.4. The backupfile, created by the windows backup > utility, is bigger than 11 Gbyte. I tried nearly every possible way, > with smaller files (of course), smbclient tar and get. but a big file is > not transferable. At least, the filesize is no displayed correctly. but > the file is always either cut of in the middle, or just grows infintive. > I tried taring whole directories over smbclient, that worked, the file > was good and big (5.3G, but many small files transfered, of course). I > thought that the file size limit from 4 gbyte was not applicant any > more.. or am i wrong? am I just totally confused? does anybody have any > option on how to fix this problem? thx patrickPlease send me some more details. Are you using smbclient to transfer to>2Gb file? Or are you copying it to the Samba box from a windows client?-------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed