[NTLUG:Discuss] 2 gig file limit via samba

[Chris Cox]

David Evans wrote:
> hello all
> a special thanks to Chris cox for all the valuable info on smbfs. I was
> having trouble transferring a 2.1 gig file mounting a windows share
> using smbfs. I have researched the problem and samba was written way
> before ntfs file system and the 2 gig file transfer limit is there for
> fat32 support That is the way I read it

Actually smbfs is completely independent of samba.. and that's the
main reason why things might not work there :)  This is why the
Samba team is pushing CIFS over the older (non-Samba) smbfs.

The 2G limit inside of SUSE's smbfs in particular was a bug and only affected
certain versions of SUSE.  Since smbfs is in inside the kernel, a
kernel recompile was needed to eliminate the problem... or just use
a newer version of SUSE.