On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 11:41, Ben Davis wrote: > "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx> screef: > > >> The smb file system driver in Linux 2.4 has a 2GB size limit. > > > Actually, according to the samba team, the 2Gb limit is actually if you > > use > > mount -t smbfs command which is not within the scope of samba. they > > recommend using smbclient. > > well there's something I didn't know - and I've been using Samba since pre > v2... never been an issue for me. I've got several SMB shares mounted from > /etc/fstab on a variety of Windoze boxen, one of them is a +-15gb mp3 > share - no problems. > > I'm using 2.4.xx, but AFAIR this wasn't a problem on 2.2.xx kernels either > -- so I'm curious, where is this limit defined? I run Samba 2.2.1 > (patched) and 3.0.0-15 here. > > Groetz....j The size limit are on files, not on shares, try to make a file larger than 2GB..... Sturla
