[Samba] Fwd: LARGE folder/filesystem shared to Win 2k.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:55:49AM -0500, Duffy W. via samba wrote:
> 
> Hi all. Got a strange question for you (it's for an industrial setting.)
> 
> I have a large folder (15TB) on a *buntu server that I'd like to have
> available to a Windows 2000 Server VM machine (don't ask.)
> 
> The host filesystem is ext4, but Samba shouldn't care about that.
> 
> What I'm wondering is will Windows be able to access/utilize all the space
> on that, or is it going to start erroring out at Windows' max partition
> size?
> 
> (I've looked around and I can't find where anyone's addressed the question,
> and I don't particularly want to tinker with a client's old
> bubble-gum-and-duct-tape setup to test.  We're replacing it eventually but
> for now, we just kinda need to get it working.)

Windows NTFS doesn't have a 15Tb partition limit, so I doubt
that it will have a problem there.

Having said that Windows2000 is SMB1-only, so you'll
have to depend on Samba SMB1 implementation to cope
with everything.

Should be OK I think.