[Samba] File size limit = 2G?

[Ed Struzynski]

Hello All,

 

I'm running Samba 2.2.7a on RedHat 8.0. Connecting to a Windows 2000 

200GB share works OK, except for files > 2 GBytes.

 

The linux box can see the large Windows files, but does not see their

correct sizes -- it reports an absurdly big size when using ls -l. Files
less 

that 2GB show up correctly. Trying to create a 3G file on the Windows box

from the linux box, using:

 

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ntserver/bigfile bs=100M count=30

 

results in an error when the file hits 2G, with the error "file size

limit exceeded". Running the same command creating a file on the local

linux ext3 filesystem works OK.

 

Removing the Windows box from the equation, instead connecting to another

linux box running samba results in the same error. Creating a 3G file

on the same target system using NFS works OK, as does FTP.

 

So it appears that Samba supports large filesystems, but not large

files. Is this a configuration issue or a 32bit limitation in Samba??

I've tried samba-3.0alpha21-1 and it has the same problem.

 

thanks,

Ed S.