[RESOLVED] W2K NTBackup 2GB limit to SAMBA_2_2 server

[Jens Petersohn]

Well, it turns out that SAMBA_2_2 does fix the bug.
I routinely overinstall new samba releases into the same directory tree
(/usr/local/samba) as the old release. Somewhere along the line
samba switched the smbd and nmbd binaries to sbin/ from bin/.
The startup script that I had placed into the etc directories however
was still looking for the old binaries (and found them). So eventhough
I was using SAMBA_2_2 client tools (as verified by smbclient -V), the
server binary was still the old (probably 2.0.9) binary.
rm -rf'ing bin and sbin, make install and fixing the startup script
resolved the problem.

Thanks,

Jens Petersohn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jens Petersohn" <jkp at riker.nailed.org>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: W2K NTBackup 2GB limit to SAMBA_2_2 server


> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to use samba on a linux system as a backup server by
> exporting large cheap ATA disks as backup volumes to Win2K and WinXP
> systems.
> However, when the backup reaches 2^31 bytes, the backup aborts with a
> "Media Error: Unknown Error" on the W2K machine.
> I've tried both the release tar ball 2.2.2 of samba and the SAMBA_2_2
> CVS branch (as of 1/26/2002). I found a couple of messages in the mail
> archive that talked about similiar problems and according to a thread
> "smdb 2 GB limit" there was a bugfix commited to HEAD and SAMBA_2_2.
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be fixing my problem.
> The server is running RH 7.1 w/ glibc 2.2.4 and kernel 2.4.17.
> I get LFS=yes and "checking enable of large files"=yes during configure.
> So at least it thinks that it is supposed to support large files.
> I also wrote a C program to run on the RH server to read/write large
> files and it works OK too. Also sum, ls and the other standard tools
> work fine with large files on the server.
> 
> Does anybody know what is going on?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jens Petersohn
> 
> 
> 
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