Are there any limits to the size of a file that can be sent to a SAMBA server? I ask, because a year or so ago, I was using a SAMBA device to store data files from a Windowz system that were larger than 2 GIG. The Windows system came back saying that the drive was full. A check of the space on the SAMBA location said 30 GIG was open. The same 2 GIG file between 2 Windows boxes did work. Thanks for your help. --alan
Hi, this behavior is not really samba related, i guess youre using ext2 on the samba host system, there should be no problem if you use ext3 which has no 2GB limtitation Regards Garies, Alan schrieb:>Are there any limits to the size of a file that can be sent to a SAMBA >server? > > > >I ask, because a year or so ago, I was using a SAMBA device to store >data files from a Windowz system that were larger than 2 GIG. > >The Windows system came back saying that the drive was full. A check of >the space on the SAMBA location said 30 GIG was open. > >The same 2 GIG file between 2 Windows boxes did work. > > > >Thanks for your help. > >--alan > > >
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 09:12, Garies, Alan wrote:> Are there any limits to the size of a file that can be sent to a SAMBA > server?How are you "sending" the file?> > > > I ask, because a year or so ago, I was using a SAMBA device to store > data files from a Windowz system that were larger than 2 GIG. > > The Windows system came back saying that the drive was full. A check of > the space on the SAMBA location said 30 GIG was open. > > The same 2 GIG file between 2 Windows boxes did work.What Linux kernel are you using? What version of Samba? - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 09:12, Garies, Alan wrote:> Are there any limits to the size of a file that can be sent to a SAMBA > server?How are you "sending" the file?> > > > I ask, because a year or so ago, I was using a SAMBA device to store > data files from a Windowz system that were larger than 2 GIG. > > The Windows system came back saying that the drive was full. A check of > the space on the SAMBA location said 30 GIG was open. > > The same 2 GIG file between 2 Windows boxes did work.What Linux kernel are you using? What version of Samba? - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
hi, [just a hint] i had the same problem if i wanted to copy files from linux smb-client (mount.smbfs) to samba server with: - samba v3 running on SuSE 9.1 64 Bit 2.6 kernel, xfs not samba was the problem (windows could store files >2GB) but the smbfs kernel module stopped me so i used cifs instead which worked cheerz Garies, Alan wrote:> Are there any limits to the size of a file that can be sent to a SAMBA > server? > > > > I ask, because a year or so ago, I was using a SAMBA device to store > data files from a Windowz system that were larger than 2 GIG. > > The Windows system came back saying that the drive was full. A check of > the space on the SAMBA location said 30 GIG was open. > > The same 2 GIG file between 2 Windows boxes did work. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > --alan >-- Michael Gasch - Central IT Department - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig Germany