RE: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-26 Thread Theodore Wynnychenko
-Original Message- From: Daniel O'Connor Partition it in 2, put the driver on a small FAT partition and make the rest ext2 :) -- -Original Message- From: Rashkae Hmm, I'm sorry, I don't have any great insights into this problem... I was wondering, however, if you might have

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-25 Thread Rashkae
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a post about this somewhere (I can't seem to find it again), which said this was a problem with the VFAT code, not samba. I was wondering, is this is the case? is the is a work-around? Basically, is there a way to write large files via samba to a VFAT USB

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-23 Thread Frank Van Damme
On 9/23/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to keep the USB drive as FAT so that I could easily move it a Windows machine if necessary. anyway, i found the reference (i don't know why i was having trouble last night) -

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-22 Thread Frank Van Damme
On 9/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have used samba for many years, and it worked great (thanks!). Anyway, I recently decided to add a USB drive to the server. Currently running 2.6.29.2 linux kernel, debian etch. samba version 3.0.24 The USB drive is VFAT I am

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-22 Thread t-wynnychenko
Hello I was trying to keep the USB drive as FAT so that I could easily move it a Windows machine if necessary. anyway, i found the reference (i don't know why i was having trouble last night) - -- Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org Thu Aug 24 16:00:45 GMT 2006 Mattias Rönnblom

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to keep the USB drive as FAT so that I could easily move it a Windows machine if necessary. anyway, i found the reference (i don't know why i was having trouble last night) - You could put ext2/3 on it and use this in Windows -

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-22 Thread t-wynnychenko
==Original message text=== On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:49:06 pm +0100 Daniel O'Connor wrote: You could put ext2/3 on it and use this in Windows - http://www.fs-driver.org/ I've never tested it though. ===End of original message text=== At one point a year or

Re: [Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At one point a year or so ago, i mounted a ext2 filesystem on a win2K machine. It did work. However, the reason I asked about VFAT is I wanted to have a USB drive that could be removed from the samba server and used on (pretty much) any

[Samba] VFAT filesystem and large files

2007-09-21 Thread t-wynnychenko
Hello I have used samba for many years, and it worked great (thanks!). Anyway, I recently decided to add a USB drive to the server. Currently running 2.6.29.2 linux kernel, debian etch. samba version 3.0.24 The USB drive is VFAT I am able to write small files remotely to the USB drive (a few