samba - May 2006 - >4gb file corruption from NT4 to Samba

Hi, sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched the 
archives and discovered the same question but no replies to it.
Basically, I'm trying to transfer large files from a Windows NT4 machine 
to samba (version 3.0.20b, SuSE 10.0, reiserfs) and after 4GB the file 
gets filled with zeros.  No such corruption occurs when transferring 
from Windows 2000.  Does anyone know whether this is a Samba problem or 
a Windows problem?  And if it is the former, is there a fix or 
workaround available?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Cheers,

James.

Hi,
I remember there was a kind of limit in file size running WNT4, perhaps just 
at 4GB.
It is possible the filling with 0s exceeding the limit.
In addition, NTFS v5.0 (the W2000 fs) didn't have this limitation, so it 
seems correct you have no troubles.

When MS released SP5 or SP6 for WNT, changes to filesystem stucture were 
introduced to prepare the "field" for the new filesystem version.

You should try to apply the SP6 then transfer again your file(s).

Hope this helps

NanniX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Watkins" <misterwatto@gmail.com>
To: "Samba" <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: [Samba] >4gb file corruption from NT4 to Samba

> Hi, sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched the archives 
> and discovered the same question but no replies to it.
> Basically, I'm trying to transfer large files from a Windows NT4
machine
> to samba (version 3.0.20b, SuSE 10.0, reiserfs) and after 4GB the file 
> gets filled with zeros.  No such corruption occurs when transferring from 
> Windows 2000.  Does anyone know whether this is a Samba problem or a 
> Windows problem?  And if it is the former, is there a fix or workaround 
> available?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Cheers,
>
> James.
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