Hi,
I am trying to send large (over 4GB of data) files over to the Windows computer. I use smbmount, or mount -t smbfs to connect to the Windows machine. After I start transferring, at about the size of 2GB I get a message that says: File size exceeded or smth. like that. I have checked, and it looks like my kernel (4.6.4, freshly compiled) supports large files. I mean they exist on my system, and I can move them around so it must have large file support, right? Is it my samba then? My samba version is 2.2.7a-1. Is there a newer samba that has large file support included? I want to stay away from any patches, just want to have an easy resolution to this problem.

Thanks

Use the search, Luke ...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...54#post1100854

Cheers,
Tink

Unfortunately, those posts don't really give me any answers. I guess nobody know for sure what is going on with this problem.
Thanks anyways.

It depends whether the windows filesystem is FAT32 or NTFS

Guess you didn't read too well ...

Here's a bit from the 2nd link.

Cheers,
Tink

Tried that, it doesnt like that option. I just got a newer samba 3.0.6 installed, and that doesn't take -o lfs option. I don't know what to do next. The file system that I am trying to copy the file to is NTFS. Any ideas for what I can check and how to do it?

Thanks a lot!

I got the same problem..
This doesnt help
"mount -t smbfs -o lfs,username=xxx,password=xxx,workgroup=xxx //xxx/test /mnt/test"
the only solution i got is to sit infront of my windows machine and copy the file that are larger than 2Gb
But if someone know how to fix the problem pls respond.

And i tried "smbmount //xxx/test /mnt/test -o lfs,username=xxx,password=xxx,workgroup=xxx"
that doesnt help either

ps. dont mind the "xxx" because i know that is not the problem .ds

hmm.. i read something that libc needs to be recompiled with largefile support