Jeremy's fix has been checked into the CVS tree along with a fix for
smbclient showing the correct sizes that I just made. This may fix
your problem.

Ken Walker wrote:
> 
> Here are my tests using a LM8.1 ( samba 2.2.2 ext2 ) and LM9 ( samba 2.2.7
> ext3)
> 
> Using Tar to copy 8Gig comprising 5 folders and umpteen files.
> 
> From        to  File system      Max file size allowed  Max file size system
> 
> LM8.1       LM9     ext3                        2Gig                    4Gig
> LM8.1     Win2000           ntfs                        2Gig
> 4Gig
> LM8.1      Win98            fat32                       2Gig
> 4Gig
> 
> Also tried using cp, as above, with a 4Gig file and it still bombed out at
> 2Gig.
> 
> So it looks like if you want to copy a file out of or into a samba server
> that's bigger than 2G. forget it. It doesn't even respect the target
> operating systems max file size.
> 
> Any answers from the Samba Team ?
> 
> Mr Smiley ( stuck in a corner and basically buggered :o(  )
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 03 December 2002 5:42 PM
> To: Bernhard Sadlowski
> Cc: Klaus Ethgen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Samba] RE: Version 2.2.6 and above are not able to store
> big fil es over 2GB
> 
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:37:26PM +0100, Bernhard Sadlowski wrote:
> > On 29 Nov 2002 20:08, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I'm hitting the 2G limit taring from 2.2.2 to ntfs NT4.
> > > Thats a other problem which is fixed with version 2.2.3 (as I know)
> > >
> > > > could this be my problem as well.
> > > No, my problem is first in the version 2.2.6. When you use version 2.2.5
> > > everythink seemes to work fine.
> >
> > Same problem here. 2.2.5 works, 2.2.6, 2.2.7 and above (even tried
> > 3.0.alpha20) does not. The underlying filesystem do store files >2GB and
> > with Samba 2.2.5 they do. I even tried gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.2. Is there
> > any fix available?
> 
> I have a fix I think may address the problem. Are you comforatable
> patching source code and re-building Samba ?
> 
> Jeremy.
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