On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:57:51PM +1000, Raymond Burgess wrote:

I would like to know if any of you have successfully copied files larger than 4GB from a Windows machine to a recent build on samba. I'm not sure if it's Samba, Windows XP or the SMB protocol that is limited at 4GB. I realy don't care either, but I would like to know if this will work, it might motivate me to upgrade a little faster ;-)

It's probably due to an old kernel causing the file size limit. Upgrading is a good idea ;) Perhaps even exploring different distributions?

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:57 +1000, Raymond Burgess wrote:

I am running a machine with RH 7.1, samba-2.0.10

And I thought hostility was old running 7.3 ;)

Files that are larger than 4GB fail to copy. Once the progress reaches 4GB windows prompts you if you wish to overright the exisiting file.

I would like to know if any of you have successfully copied files larger than 4GB from a Windows machine to a recent build on samba. I'm not sure if it's Samba, Windows XP or the SMB protocol that is limited at 4GB. I realy don't care either, but I would like to know if this will work, it might motivate me to upgrade a little faster ;-)

I've had the same problem before. I believe it is Samba that is at fault. Ext3 can support files larger than 2GB. I think it can do files up to several terabytes in size. And NTFS certainly can do huge files. Samba 2.x seems to be using 32 bit file offsets though. Which sucks. Use RAR to split the file on the Windows XP box (use a target file on the Linux box if there is no room on the XP machine for the RARs. Then unrar it on the Linux box. If you have Cygwin installed you can use split to do the same job. But then you new this already. :) Regards -- Oliver Jones » Roving Code Warrior oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 » www.deeperdesign.com

Raymond Burgess wrote:

I am running a machine with RH 7.1, samba-2.0.10

I moving some large files from a Windows XP machine to the large amount of diskspace that is available ont he Linux machine.

Files that are larger than 4GB fail to copy. Once the progress reaches 4GB windows prompts you if you wish to overright the exisiting file.

I am already planning on installing a newer release on the linux box, probably Fedora Code 3 (or 4, as It will probably be out by the time I get around to it).

I would like to know if any of you have successfully copied files larger than 4GB from a Windows machine to a recent build on samba. I'm not sure if it's Samba, Windows XP or the SMB protocol that is limited at 4GB. I realy don't care either, but I would like to know if this will work, it might motivate me to upgrade a little faster ;-)

Anyone with FC3 able to confirm that this has worked.

Have you considered using pscp from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ I have found the putty suite to be very useful under windows and doing an scp transfer should get around any possible issues with samba and at least narrow down the possible cause of the problem if it still fails.