[Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help

[Chris McKeever]

gave it a shot...no go .. will keep toying with it!

Thanks for the suggestion

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Shackelford [mailto:scott at customtransport.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:06 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help
> 
> 
> I've seen some older programs not handle Network shares over 
> 2GB. I would
> try to limit the max disk size reported to 2GB.
> 
> In your smb.conf in the [global] section add
> 
> 	max disk size = 2000
> 
> and see if that fixes it. I usually see this on some 
> installers as they
> think that if it's over 2GB or space that it thinks it's 0 
> space free. (Runs
> out of bits.) Hope this helps.
> 
> 	-Scott Shackelford
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-bounces+scott=customtransport.com at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-bounces+scott=customtransport.com at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Chris McKeever
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:38 PM
> > Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> > Subject: [Samba] windows file compatibility aka A Cry For Help
> >
> >
> > Everything is going amazing in the windows->samba 
> conversion until I ran
> > into a roadblock..I really dont know what may be going on so I
> > will outline
> > it as best as I can.
> >
> > We have a program called realty toolkit which saves its 
> configuration and
> > security settings onto the network.  Well, after putting the
> > files onto the
> > linux box, it no loger wants to work, the security check fails.
> >
> > calling the vendor they asked 'is there any compression' 
> because they have
> > seen this behavior with compressed drives, and thier explanation
> > is 'toolkit
> > looks for a specific file geometry and compression throws 
> that off'  -- so
> > my interpretation is that the file has to be written 
> correctly when read
> >
> > I can only guess that samba stores it a bit different, and 
> therefore the
> > geometry is off...
> >
> > Does this make any sense? or is this way off and it is a 
> different problem
> > that can be fixed???
> >
> > Other than that the implementation is running great!
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