Wrong File Size

[Urban Widmark]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Vaile wrote:

> I just connected to a Windows share using smbmount from my Linux system. 
>  One of the files on the Windows share is over 13Gigs in size, but 
> through Samba, it is only reported as 755Mg.  Is this a known bug or is 
> there something I should know?

smbfs doesn't support files >2G in the 2.4 kernels.

You can get patches here if you need this:
http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html

The 2.4.18 patches work with later kernels too, but you don't need the 
"00" patch first. Note that there is both a samba and a kernel patch.

/Urban