What you forgot to mention is what Filesystem on the server.
Isn't there a limit to ext2? Have you gotten the issue resolved
yet?


--- Christoph Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to backup my 20GB laptop's harddrive to my samba
> fileserver, but I've
> been running into a 2GB limit.  I can create a 3GB file with
> dd when logged
> into the server via ssh, but trying the same thing over a
> samba mount gives me
> a "File size limit exceeded" error.  I've been googling, but I
> haven't been
> able to find anything helpful.  My main box is running Gentoo
> and my
> fileserver is running Debian unstable.  Both are recently
> updated
> 
> BTW, the laptop can be mounted via a USB connection from its
> cradle while it's
> shut down, so corruption from backing up an in-use filesystem
> won't be an issue.



                
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