Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona
<derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have FreeBSD 7.0 Release and if I mount_smbfs a network NTFS share I have
a 2 GB size limit on files. I checked the handbook and list archives but
have not found a solution.

I just ran a quick test, and was not able to reproduce this issue with
the mount_smbfs from FreeBSD 7.0. I tried against a Windows 2003
Server SP2, Windows XP SP3, and Samba 3.0 {on FreeBSD 7} with a 3.5GB
file.

Was your issue with reading from or writing to a SMB share ?

What is the server software and OS version ?
(if Microsoft Windows, please include Service Pack number as well, as
it might make a difference)
How much disk space is left on your server volume ?
Are there disk quotas enabled on the server ?
What error message are you getting from your FreeBSD client (if any) ?
Can you check the smb server logs and see if you are getting any error
messages there ?
You may want to get a Wireshark trace and see if you can capture the
SMB error message/error code.

I have heard of people running into similar problems when running
against older server software (NT 4.0/old samba) when the SMB session
did not negotiate large file/large write support (a function of the
SMB server capabilities session negotiation)

Supposedly there is an smbmount as part of the
standard samba, but that doesn't seem to install from any of the samba
ports.

smbmount is not included in the FreeBSD port of samba, as it is Linux
kernel specific. mount_smbfs(8) is the correct userland app.

You could always try the samba smbclient(1) to access SMB shares using
an FTP-like environment.


Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry I do not have a good solution for you. Perhaps someone else
will give you better advice.

Good Luck!

-_Dave Horn


-Derek
derek at computinginnovations.com



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