Hello, Andrew Bartlett, Samstag, 29. November 2003, 04:25 you wrote:
AB> smbfs in the kernel cannot support the large files. smbmount in Samba AB> 3.0 has the patches required to support the large file negotiation AB> (that's the lfs option). Ok, I see. >> - I read about several patches and stuff, but that was all for older >> kernels. Basically I would be happy if it works with kernel 2.4.x. >> Could someone point me to the patches? >> >> I know that this topic ainīt new ... AB> If you cannot use smbclient (really, it is easier!), and you want to AB> patch your kernel, then patch it with the CIFS VFS: AB> http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html AB> However, in your case, you don't even need to go this far - with the 2.6 AB> kernel, CIFS is standard! Just select it just like you have smbfs and AB> NFS. Good for me. I will try that. The reason why I canīt use smbclient is that it seems to NOT support multiple excludes as needed in backups. I have posted on that topic some weeks ago (14.Nov.03), and I havenīt received any positive answers that told me how to make multiple excludes work with smbclient. Look at what I wrote then: > smbclient can exclude stuff via the "-X" option. > > Jon LaBadie and I have tried various approaches to exclude multiple > items which may be contained in some kind of exclude-list (similar to > the exclude file amanda uses for gnutar-backups). Jon has written a > small smbclient-wrapper to feed the multiple options to smbclient, but > it doesn't work out so far. > > We found that multiple includes are supported by the "-I" option, but > it seems that there is only supported ONE exclude by the "-X" option. > > It is always the first item given that is excluded. > > Also we could not exactly figure out how all this relates to using "-r". > > So the questions are: > > - Can we exclude multiple items from being processed by smbclient via > "-X"? Or somehow else? > > - If yes, could someone point us to the right syntax? > > - How to understand the "-r" option? Does "HAVE_REGEX_H" to be > compiled into client.c/clitar.c to support regexes? The behavior of > "-r" does not change the way we expected from reading the manuals. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba