samba - Dec 2002 - large file handling problems in 2.2.7a

Hi,

The release notes say 2.2.7a fixes some large file handling problems in
smbclient, but I think not all.  I'm seeing the following problems still:

- large files in mounted filesystems (smbmount) report incorrect file sizes
with Unix 'ls' and hence copy incompletely from an smbfs filesystem to
an
ext3 filesystem.

- although an smbclient 'ls' command lists the size of a large file
properly, if I run 'smbclient -Tc' to create a tarball from such a
share,
only the first N bytes of a large file in the share get stuffed in the
tarball, where N is (I think) the incorrectly reported size, e.g., reported
in the first example.

The large file I'm dealing with is about a 17GB Exchange database on a W2K
server, but I suspect anything over 2GB will exhibit similar errors.  I'm
running RH7.3.

Can anybody else confirm these errors?

Regards,
Carey

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Carey Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The release notes say 2.2.7a fixes some large file handling problems in
> smbclient, but I think not all.  I'm seeing the following problems
still:
> 
> - large files in mounted filesystems (smbmount) report incorrect file sizes
> with Unix 'ls' and hence copy incompletely from an smbfs filesystem
to an
> ext3 filesystem.
That has nothing to do with smbclient.

You need a kernel patch to make smbfs use better read/write SMBs and a
tiny smbmount patch to make it negotiate properly.

See: http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html

That should fix ls, cp, tar etc. Can't answer for smbclient though.

/Urban