[Samba] SMB shares size on a Linux system

Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 13:25:11 GMT 2007


> Is there a maximum share size that SMB will allow for a Windows host
> to access. We are using Samba 3.0.20b on a Linux 2.6.20 system.
> When we create a share of size 1.5TB on this system, we observe that
> after copying around 500GB of data into this share from a Windows XP
> system, the network mapped drive gets connected successfully. But then
> quickly gets disconnected when we try to copy around another 3GB of
> data into that.

I think you have some other kind of problem;  I regularly move around
>4Gb files without a problem.

> Is there any upper limit on the data size per share that Samba will
> ever support? 

Beyond the limits of the underlying architecture (filesystem, etc...)
I've not encountered any.

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