Large disc shares seen from Windows 95 & 95

[Anders Widman]

I'm not sure this applies to this specific problem, but for my system anyway, samba only reports the size (free disk space) of the root partition for all shares. For examble, I have  about 800MB free on my root 
filesystem and about 150GB free on /mnt/shared_filesystem, but samba only reports 800MB free..

//Anders

2002-01-03 23:44:10, "Donald.Zajic" <donald.zajic at verizon.net> wrote:

>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
>
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>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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