[Samba] File size limit?
David Brodbeck
DavidB at mail.interclean.com
Thu May 29 19:41:24 GMT 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: djfogbr [mailto:djfogbr at terra.com.br]
> My problem is: when I try to mount an w2k share in this
> machine using smbmount, I can't see big files correctly. I
> suspect that the problem happens with files bigger then 2GB.
> I have a file in the w2k machine that's 4GB size, and when I
> mount the share in the linux machine, I see that file with
> just about 360MB!
I don't think smbfs supports large files. Someone can correct me if I'm
wrong. It has nothing to do with what filesystem you're using on your Linux
system; it's a limitation of the smbfs driver.
Sharing large files *from* Linux is supported by Samba, though.
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