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 so

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 d

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 > > la

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" window

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: > 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
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 wrot

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 >