odd error between vfat and samba

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hi Tim,
It almost sounds like a hard and soft quotas limit on the linux side - any
chance that you have quotas enabled on the fs that you are sharing????  Try
the following;
after you have connected to the share in question from your windows machine,
use smbstatus to take a look at the actual linux user that you are connected
as.
THEN login to your linux server AS the same user, and try to create a file >
800kb on that filesystem that you were accessing from windows.  If you CAN,
then you have a good suspicion the problem is with the windows access to the
linux fs via samba.  If you CAN't, then you can start poking around about
quotas, etc for that user from the linux side.

Good luck,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Ball [mailto:timball at tux.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:30 PM
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: odd error between vfat and samba


[Please Cc: timball at tux.org on replies because I'm not on the samba
list]

Setup:
Samba 2.0.7 (from debian sid), Linux 2.4.3-XFS, Window95, Windows98

Problem:
I have a linux machine that I occationally duel boot and I wanted to be
able to share my mp3s directory to my roomate via samba. I figured I'd
just make a partition vfat and have both linux and windows export that
directory... but under linux there seems to be an odd issue w/ creating
a file larger than 800K on the samba share. 

Symptomps:
I've tried multiple ways of creating a file on the samba share. First
from the windows machine just copying a file larger than 400K will fail,
and throw up a dialog box that says something to the effect "No
Permission to create file check w/ sysadmin". But if I right click in
the direcotry and create a NewTextFile I can... I can even write stuff
into that file... until it gets over 800K... then it fails. 

Then I mounted the samba share onto my home directory (same machine as
the one sharing it) on the linux machine. I can touch and vi files all I
want, but if I want to copy anything it just hangs until I <ctrl>-c it. 

Outstanding issues:
I've tried looking in the /var/log/smb file for errors.

Conf Files:
--snip--snip--snip--smb.conf--snip--snip--snip--
[global]
   guest account = nobody
   invalid users = root
   security = server
   workgroup = 0x13F.NET
   syslog only = no
   syslog = 0
   encrypt passwords = yes
   null passwords = true
   wins support = yes
   os level = 155
   domain master = yes
   local master = yes
   preferred master = yes
   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
   dns proxy = no
   preserve case = yes
   short preserve case = yes
   unix password sync = false
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:*
%n\n*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
   max log size = 1000
[mp3s]
    comment = Mp3s
    path = /mnt/mp3s
    
    guest ok = true
    create mask = 0775
    directory mask = 0775
--snip--snip--snip--smb.conf--snip--snip--snip--

TIA,
timball

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