Samba, vfat and new kernels: Anyone able to solve the problem?

[Gianpaolo Cugola]

This is my third mail in the last three months and still no-one has
answered, while I received some comments from other users about the fact
that the problem is known. So if you have any info on how to fix this,
please post a message :-)

Here is the problem:

I used to share a vfat mounted partition with other collegues through samba
(2.0.7).
Everything worked and still works fine with kernel 2.2.18. With new kernels
(2.4.3) I have
problems in copying large files. Windows 98 clients returns me a message
saying I have no access rigths to perform the operation. Everything
works fine if:
- files are small (lessa than 100k)
- or I use a windows 2k client
- or the samba share is on a ext2 partition

Regards
  G.