[Samba] samba and very large files

[Christopher Lyon]

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 1:02 PM
> 
> Hello, Christopher,
> 
> you wrote:
> 
> CL> Map to Windows Machine from the Gentoo System (See something
wrong?)
> CL> mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=xxxxxxx
//boxster/d$
> CL> /test
> 
> Yeah. As it has been discussed several times on this list, smbfs is
> limited to 2GB. Please use cifs instead.
> 
Got it. So that is why I don't have a problem creating a share on the
Gentoo systems, mapping a drive on the Windows machines to the Gentoo
system and copying the files that way?

> Lookup http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html for details
> on how to patch your kernel ...
> 
> Also smbfs is NOT part of the Samba suite but part of the linux
> kernel.

Learn something every day :)

> 
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> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor at oops.co.at
> 
> 
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