Hi, My company has a Samba [3.0] share on a Debian Linux 3.0 [Kernel 2.6] machine and we are trying to copy a large file [>2GB] from a Windows machine to the Samba share. When we try to do this, it only copies 2GB of the information. We were previously having a similar issue when transfering a large file [>2GB] from Linux to a Windows share [mounted as smbfs], but fixed that with the 'lfs' option in the mount command. Does anyone know what settings need changed to allow the Samba share to accept large files from Windows? I've searched the internet for a couple days now and haven't found a solution. Thanks for your help. Jeremy _____________________________________ Jeremy Hatter Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. Voice: 212-240-2282 Fax: 212-240-2298 jhatter@biaprotect.com http://www.biaprotect.com <blocked::/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.biaprotect.com/> Digital Discovery Services & Computer Forensics This message may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information intended only for the use of the individual(s) named on the To:, Cc: and Bcc: lines. If you are not one of the intended recipient(s), then you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this email transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete the email in its entirety and call or email us immediately so that we may take appropriate steps to correct the problem at no cost to you. Even if this message has reached you in error, sender does not in any way waive confidentiality or privilege. Thank you.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:29:50PM -0600, Jeremy Hatter - BIA wrote:> Hi, > > My company has a Samba [3.0] share on a Debian Linux 3.0 [Kernel 2.6] > machine and we are trying to copy a large file [>2GB] from a Windows > machine to the Samba share. When we try to do this, it only copies 2GB > of the information. We were previously having a similar issue when > transfering a large file [>2GB] from Linux to a Windows share [mounted > as smbfs], but fixed that with the 'lfs' option in the mount command. > Does anyone know what settings need changed to allow the Samba share to > accept large files from Windows? I've searched the internet for a > couple days now and haven't found a solution. Thanks for your help.Are you using cifsfs ? It should work with this solution, not smbfs. Jeremy.
not sure if this is help or not but you may find this is a limitation of windows. when i came across this issue i solved it by breaking down the >2GB file. it was a tarred/gzipped backup of the /home directory - i wrote a script which looped through the directories inside the home directory and zipped up the individual directories. the nice extra on this is that the user can more easily retreive an archive version of a file. HTH, kevin Jeremy Hatter - BIA wrote:>Hi, > >My company has a Samba [3.0] share on a Debian Linux 3.0 [Kernel 2.6] >machine and we are trying to copy a large file [>2GB] from a Windows >machine to the Samba share. When we try to do this, it only copies 2GB >of the information. We were previously having a similar issue when >transfering a large file [>2GB] from Linux to a Windows share [mounted >as smbfs], but fixed that with the 'lfs' option in the mount command. >Does anyone know what settings need changed to allow the Samba share to >accept large files from Windows? I've searched the internet for a >couple days now and haven't found a solution. Thanks for your help. > >Jeremy > >_____________________________________ >Jeremy Hatter >Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. > >Voice: 212-240-2282 >Fax: 212-240-2298 >jhatter@biaprotect.com > >http://www.biaprotect.com ><blocked::/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.biaprotect.com/> >Digital Discovery Services & Computer Forensics > >This message may contain confidential and/or legally privileged >information intended only for the use of the individual(s) named on the >To:, Cc: and Bcc: lines. If you are not one of the intended >recipient(s), then you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, >distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of >this email transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received >this communication in error, please delete the email in its entirety and >call or email us immediately so that we may take appropriate steps to >correct the problem at no cost to you. Even if this message has reached >you in error, sender does not in any way waive confidentiality or >privilege. Thank you. > > >
On 10/21/05, Jeremy Hatter - BIA <jhatter@biaprotect.com> wrote:> > Hi, > > My company has a Samba [3.0] share on a Debian Linux 3.0 [Kernel 2.6] > machine and we are trying to copy a large file [>2GB] from a Windows > machine to the Samba share. When we try to do this, it only copies 2GB > of the information. We were previously having a similar issue when >Is the filesystem of the samba server ext2 by any chance? IIRC 2GB was the limit of it.