Displayed size of SAMBA-File-Share not correct

[M. Himmelsbach]

Hi there,
thanks for your reply.
Clients we're using are mainly WinNT WS 4.0 (SP5) and Win NT 4.0 Server (SP5)
besides some WIN95, WIN 2000 and LINUX6.2-clients.
The described problem seems to be on every used client...

Martin

nick.boyce at eds.com schrieb:

> On 29.Oct.2001 M. Himmelsbach asked :
>
> > I've recently installed an disk of 35GB size. The whole disk is used for
> > SAMBA file-shares. But with the explorer-function "properties" there is
> > only 3.96GB disk space displayed! Why this?
>
> I'm not certain about the details of this without checking archives, but I
> believe that *some* popular SMB clients (i.e. some versions of Windows)
> can't obtain the free space value from the relevant fileserver correctly due
> to not having a big enough field available in the relevant SMB protocol
> frame.  This would depend on the SMB protocol dialect negotiated at share
> connect time - CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2 or NT1 - and the set of
> available dialects varies according to version of Windows client.  IIRC, the
> free space field can only hold a value equivalent to 4Gb in some of these
> dialects.
>
> [ actually I'm hazy about the limiting value here - I remember NFS mount
> points only reporting 2Gb free space max, irrespective of the real figure -
> and I believe SMB has a similar limitation ]
>
> None of my shared drives has even as much free space as *2* Gb at present,
> so I can't tell you what my Sambas report :-(
>
> Tell us what type of client you're using ?
>
> Nick Boyce
> EDS, Southwest Solution Centre, Bristol, UK

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