large file support

[Richard Sharpe]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Mourad MESSAOUDI wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
>         I'm trying to create a file on a smb share and it stops at 2 Gb.
>         samba release 2.2.7a with this patch 
>         --- libsmb/clireadwrite.c       19 Dec 2002 16:12:41 -0000 1.2.4.9
>         +++ libsmb/clireadwrite.c       30 Dec 2002 04:04:37 -0000
> 
>         kernel is 2.4.20 with acl patch.
>         I've checked, the creation of files larger than  Gb: it's ok.
>         I have this messages in /var/log/messages of the client machine 
> when I reach the 2Gb :
>                  kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 5
>                 kernel: smb_request: result -5, setting invalid
>                 kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=18489, generation=2

There have been some changes to support file sizes larger than 2-4GB. They 
should appear in 2.2.8.

Please pull the latest CVS and try.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com