[sllug-members]: Network 2 GB Limit transfer

[Jared Bernard]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 19:37, Paul Koshevoy wrote:
> Jared Bernard wrote:
> > I've set up a samba file server for our home network, but anytime I try
> > to transfer a file more then 2GB it fails.
> >
> > The Server is running CentOS 4.4 (which is basically RHEL) Kernel
> > 2.6.9-42 and Samba 3.0.10-1. It's a mixed network of Linux and windows.
> >
> > I've googled the issue and everything I've found seems to say that there
> > was a 2GB limit with kernel 2.4 and older samba versions, but apparently
> > that should have been fixed with newer versions.
> >
> > I know it's not a networking issue (at least with the clients or router)
> > because I can transfer over 2GB using Knoppix running as a liveCD wtih no
> > problems.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what might be the issue and how I can go about
> > fixing it?
> >
> > thanks,
>
> It could be the underlying file system issue -- does FAT even support files
> larger than 2GB?
>
> 	Paul.

No FAT file systems on the network, only ext3 or NTFS.

Thanks,
Jared