[Samba] Re: smbclient (2.6 kernel): File size limit exceeded

[William R. Lorenz]

Perhaps I should flush out the question a bit more, ;)

Are there any filesize limitations in the smbfs/cifs drivers in 2.6.9? 
How can I access files >2GB using Samba and remote Windows shares?

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, William R. Lorenz wrote:

> In attempting to `dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/windows-share)`, the dd stops 
> at 2.0GB with an error that states 'File size limit exceeded'.  The 
> share was mounted with `mount -t smbfs //SERVER/share 
> /mnt/windows-share`.  The box is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 box 
> running the 2.6.9-11.EL kernel.

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