I apologize if this is out of line or the incorrect venue to make my request.
I have spent months, off and on, attempting to download a large iso file through my Linux desktop to my Linux-based server. It was frustrating and damn near impossible. I kept suffering failures when the file size hit 2Gig. I asked around in several newsgroups, I believe this mailing list, and some web forums to no avail. I finally sorted the matter out and was able to receive my iso image. The holdup was that SAMBA involves a 2 Gigabyte file size limit that no one ever mentioned. I finally stumbled onto the details and by simply adding "lfs" near the end of my fstab mount statements for my server's SAMBA shares. Once I had that piece of information, it took about 10 minutes to fix the statements and remount the shares. I understand there is also a way to mount SAMBA shares as cifs shares which does not appear to be as feature rich, but does overcome the 2Gb file size limit. We are operating in a day and age of broadband Internet service, DVD media, and downloadable software (like Linux distribution iso for example), that easily exceed 2Gb. I would like to request that the "lfs" command option and perhaps even the "cifs" option be better documented in the manpage. This assuming the archaic 2 Gb limit can not be overcome in subsequent versions of SAMBA. Thank you. -- Mark E. Adams http://adamslan.shyper.com Random Musing: Tom's hungry, time to eat lunch. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba