[Samba] OSX file creation problems

[andy liebman]

danield at igb.uiuc.edu wrote:
> I have done some digging and found out more.  The problem seems to be
> that OS X is reporting the 5TB drive as 1TB and since there is over 1TB
> on the drive, it shows as full.  Does anyone know of a work around for
> this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:44 -0500, Daniel Davidson wrote:
>> I am running a REHL 4.3 server with samba RPMs: 
>>
>> 3.0.10-1.4e.9
>>
>> When an os X client connects to our samba server it can copy files from
>> the server an overwrite other files that already exist.  However when it
>> comes time to create a file, it fails, where this process works
>> correctly from a windows system.  In addition, I can go to where the
>> volume is mounted on the os X (10.3.7) machine and copy files there.  
>>
>> This isn't a problem for me, but it is for my users, has anyone else
>> experienced this?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Dan
>>
> 


Upgrade to Tiger (minimum 10.4.3) or set quotas on the shares so that OS 
X sees the shares as under 2 TB. Pre-Tiger OS X versions can't deal with 
shares seen as being over 2 TB -- they simply can't write to them. Say 
"no space available".

Andy Liebman