[Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba
Hibbard Smith
smitty at essnjay.com
Sat Feb 4 17:42:08 GMT 2006
Thanks Stephane, That says I definitely have something very wrong. I guess
I'll start with my smb.conf file and try to cut out all the junk. I started
from the sample provided with FC4 and that's got a lot of extras in it
(mostly commented out). I think I'll try to build a simple one from scratch
and see if I can't get this going.
Thanks for the help!
Smitty
Hibbard T. Smith, JR
smitty at essnjay.com
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> From: samba-bounces+smitty=essnjay.com at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-
> bounces+smitty=essnjay.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Purnelle
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:10 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba
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> Hibbard Smith a écrit :
> > I'm a relative newcomer to Samba, but very experienced with computers
> and
> > linux. I'm attempting to build a file/backup server for a small shop.
> I'm
> > using Fedora core 4 and samba on a system with a 2.1 TB RAID 50 array
> > formatted as 1 very large xfs partition. I want to share directories
> > (folders) within the partition with a few Windows XP-Pro SP2 systems
> which
> > are our primary work-stations. Currently I'm running samba-3.0.21b. I
> > started with the 3.0.14 that was released with FC4, but upgraded to the
> > "latest and greatest" when I couldn't make the original work correctly.
> The
> > kernel has also been upgraded to the Fedora released 2.6.14.1-1656-FC4-
> SMP.
> >
> >
> >
> > Our business is primarily imaging and video. A large percentage of our
> > files are over 2 GB with some way over that. Therefore, the only way
> this
> > could be useful is with very large shared file systems.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here are the issues and my questions:
> >
> >
> >
> > When I try to share this large partition (2.1 TB xfs) and use smbclient
> to
> > access it, the log records an error which states that "the share doesn't
> > exist or can't be accessed The error was access denied". I've made the
> share
> > mode 0777 just to make sure permissions wouldn't get in the way. If I
> move
> > the share to an ext3 file system that's smaller than 2 GB it works
> > correctly. Any file system over 2 GB or any size xfs file system
> produces
> > the error. I haven't even tried to access the shares from a Windows
> system
> > yet, I'm just using smbclient on the Fedora system. I'm pretty sure
> I've
> > got the config and permissions right because just changing the share to
> an
> > ext3 file system under 2 GB works fine.
> It's maybe a bug in smbclient ?
> With a windows client, have you this problem ?
>
> what says smbclient -L ?
>
> The user which try to acces to this share is correcly configured ?
> I suppose that the answer is YES.
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > So, here's my question(s):
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Does samba work with xfs file systems?
> YES, My PDC/File & print server use two XFS partition.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) Does samba work with large file systems (2 GB +)?
> Yes
> >
> >
> >
> > 3) If the answer to the above is yes, what might I be doing wrong?
> >
> >
> >
> > I haven't been able to find limits documented anywhere. However, I see
> a
> > great deal of discussion on the web about files over 2 GB along with
> > suggestions that they work fine. This would imply that file systems of
> over
> > 2 GB must work okay. I've also seen much discussion which would suggest
> > that xfs works fine also. All this discussion seems to indicate that
> I've
> > got something wrong. I'm just not sure what it is or how to proceed. I
> > have turned samba debugging up and the logs show that the correct
> user/group
> > is being used and that case is working okay. So, I'm really confused and
> I
> > sure would appreciate any help. I really need to get this done and I
> don't
> > like the alternative (Windows Server 2003).
> >
> >
> >
> > Smitty
> >
> > Hibbard T. Smith, JR
> >
> > smitty at essnjay.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> Stéphane Purnelle <stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be>
> Site Web : http://www.linuxplusvalue.be
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