[Samba] Problems with 12gb file in samba.

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:05:09AM -0500, Bull Barry - bbull wrote:
> I am trying to send a 12gb file from Windows 2000 Professional pc to a red
> hat linux 7.1 server running samba version 2.0.7. The file is ending after
> the first 4GB are sent. I looked in the /var/log/samba log and found the
> following message:
> 
> [2002/09/12 06:37:02, 0] smbd/reply.c:reply_write_and_X(2578)
>   reply_write_and_X - large offset (1 << 32) used and we don't support 64
> bit offsets.
> [2002/09/12 06:38:43, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(581)
> 
> Was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this and possibly explain
> to me what I need to do to resolve this problem.

Samba hasn't been compiled in 64 bit mode. Also you're running
a very old version of Samba. Samba 2.2.5 (the latest stable release)
supports large files correctly.

Jeremy.