[Samba] RE: Version 2.2.6 and above are not able to store big fil es over 2GB

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:37:26PM +0100, Bernhard Sadlowski wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2002 20:08, Klaus Ethgen <ethgen at ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > > I'm hitting the 2G limit taring from 2.2.2 to ntfs NT4.
> > Thats a other problem which is fixed with version 2.2.3 (as I know)
> > 
> > > could this be my problem as well.
> > No, my problem is first in the version 2.2.6. When you use version 2.2.5
> > everythink seemes to work fine.
> 
> Same problem here. 2.2.5 works, 2.2.6, 2.2.7 and above (even tried
> 3.0.alpha20) does not. The underlying filesystem do store files >2GB and
> with Samba 2.2.5 they do. I even tried gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.2. Is there
> any fix available?

I have a fix I think may address the problem. Are you comforatable
patching source code and re-building Samba ?

Jeremy.