[Samba] Still trying to backup 66 GB from LINUX to W2K ***

[tvsjr]

If you're writing to a Windows system, you have to deal with the 
limitations of the Windows box's file system, right? Are you running NTFS 
or FAT32 on the Windows box? FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB that you 
would have to contend with.

Terry

 >On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:55:51AM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote:
 >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
 >>
 >> I do not want to nit pick, but please note that smbfs is not samba.
 >> smbfs is a kernel driver in Linux.
 >>
 >> smbclient is part of Samba. You should be able to use it to backup your
 >> files to a Win2K system and it should not be 2GB limited.
 >>
 >> - John T.
 >>
 >>
 >> > Hello, Carsten.Loeffler at command.de,
 >> >
 >> > Mittwoch, 19. November 2003, 17:09 you wrote:
 >> >
 >> > CLcd> Hi Everyone.
 >> >
 >> > CLcd> I'm still having that problem that my samba cannot backup more
 >> > CLcd> than 2 GB onto a Windows share (on a Win2K box) (see messages
 >> > CLcd> earlier in this forum - I have to backup a 66 GB file out of
 >database).
 >> >
 >> > On the other hand, David Morel has sent me this:
 >> >
 >> > > for the last time, the 2Gb limitation is a problem with smbfs in 2.4
 >> > > kernels (which smbmount uses). To circumvent it, either find urban
 >> > > widmark's patches or use cifs with a 2.6 kernel.
 >> > >
 >> > > D.Morel
 >> >
 >> > I have not noticed that facts in my setup.
 >> >
 >> >
 >>
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 >> John H Terpstra
 >> Email: jht at samba.org
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