Large disc shares seen from Windows 95 & 95

[Donald.Zajic]

This may take a little testing, however, I believe that you will find that
your Win 95/98 boxes will report 2gig until you actually have less space
than that available.

We had smb partitions on Sun boxes and connected to them from Win 95 boxes
which consistantly reported 2gig until there was less than 2gig available.

Don Zajic

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of George at durequip.com
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:51 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Large disc shares seen from Windows 95 & 95


Apologies if this is an FAQ somewhere but I do not see it.  I expect that it
probably is.

I have created an 11 gig partition, mounted on /user.data and shared it as
"user.data" with SAMBA.  From my NT workstation I can see it just fine, but
from a Win 95/98 machine the file/properties shows only 2 gig.  I assume
this is due to the 95/98 partition size limit.  I assume this also means
that the 95/98 boxes can't use anything beyond the first 2 gigs on the
partition.

Can I just create and share directories as /user.data/dir1, /user.data/dir2
and so forth, which would (hopefully) have the effect of giving the 95/98
boxes access to more of the disc?  Or can someone point me to the right FAQ?
I really don't want to chop this disc up to make actual 2 gig physical
partitions.

tia,
Geo.

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