[Samba] How to bypass smbfs 2Gb limit without patching ?

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Tue Sep 17 17:16:01 GMT 2002


On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Geoffrey Hurlus wrote:

> I've heard that the culprit was smbfs because it doesn't support file bigger
> than 2Gb. I know there are patchs to this issue, but is there any way to
> solve this problem without patching the system ?

smbfs is a client. If you are using smbfs then your win2k box is NOT a
client. To fix the smbfs limit you need to patch and rebuild the kernel.

Why fat32, btw? I'd assume it has a size limit much smaller than ntfs.

/Urban




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