> Anyways, does 2.2.7a fix this 2GB file limit problem?  How long has
> this problem been around (this is the first I've heard of it, but I'm
> not a samba user).

It most certainly does.  I posted something here, didn't get any replies, so 
I went to the Samba list, where the issue was discussed hot and heavy!  The 
2.2.7A definitely fixed the 2gb limit problem, although apparently smbmount 
still has the bug, last I heard (this may now be fixed - it's been a while 
now since I've been off the samba list).

> It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling  "Hey Mandrake when
> are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?".  Is there a
> bugzilla entry for this?  I am assuming that if this was a legitimate
> problem that needed to be addressed in updates, and the bug had been
> reported to someone here, that it would have been forwarded to myself. 
> This hasn't happened so I can only assume one of two things:  It was
> reported, but not acted on, or it wasn't reported.

I reported it here on this list.  If there is another place to do so, please 
let me know.  I had hoped that since there was a 2.2.7a rpm in cooker that 
someone knew about it, and a fix was in the works.

> as i understood it, the 2 gig limit wasa fat problem, not a Samba problem,  
> If this is the case, then an upgrade wouldn't fix the problem, right?

If you're running on an old file system that has a 2gb limit, of course there 
will be a problem.  But ext3 works nicely past 2gb.

I ended up finding an (older now) cooker rpm that works with 9.0.  First 
though, I tried building from source.  This failed, while it worked fine on a 
7.1 mandrake machine.  I didn't dig too far to see why it failed.

> If someone has some reference on the samba site or mailing list or
> something that 2.2.7a fixes this problem explicitly, please let us
> know.  If this is something that upgrading to 2.2.7a will fix, then I
> would be happy to do it.

How about:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.7a.html

Bob


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