[Samba] copy files to windows thru smbmount

Koenraad Lelong samba.k.lelong at ace-electronics.be
Fri Dec 17 12:02:04 GMT 2004


Csere Mátyás wrote:
> hello
>  
> i have this strange problem:
> i've ounted up a windows share on my linux machine, and tryign to copy a file to it, which is bigger than 2gbs, and it fails with a "maximum file size exceeded" error.
> the linux is running ext3, and windows is ntfs, so the size limit must be somewhere in samba.
>  
> i've read on http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg10412.html about this.
> ive tryed 2.2.9, 2.2.11, 2.2.12, even one from the 3 series, but im still getting this error.
>  
> i've seen in the changelog that it was fixed, but i cant figure out what im doing wrong.
>  
> can anyone help me with it?
>  
> thanks in advance,
> wd
>  
> 
How to mount with cifs :
http://www.uwplatt.edu/oit/howto/mountvolumecifs-lin.html




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