Can anybody explain why SOME Windows XP applications have trouble writing files larger than 2 GB (or sometimes larger than 4 GB) to Linux Samba shares, when OTHER Windows applications on the same machine do not have difficulty writing large files to the same Samba share? And when the underlying Linux filesystem supports very large files?

I have sometimes even found that a SINGLE Windows application can write files larger than 4 GBs while performing SOME operations, but while performing OTHER operations, when a file gets to 2GB or 4GB, you get back a message saying "reached file size limit" or something similar. And those same operations don't cause any trouble when writing > 4GB files to a local hard drive.

Is there a setting in smb.conf that can communicate better to Windows applications that large file sizes are supported?

Likewise, is there a Windows XP registry setting that can make sure that applications know they can write large files to a Samba share?

Help and insight would be appreciated.

Andy Liebman
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