On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

I do not want to nit pick, but please note that smbfs is not samba.
smbfs is a kernel driver in Linux.

smbclient is part of Samba. You should be able to use it to backup your
files to a Win2K system and it should not be 2GB limited.

- John T.


> Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>
> Mittwoch, 19. November 2003, 17:09 you wrote:
>
> CLcd> Hi Everyone.
>
> CLcd> I'm still having that problem that my samba cannot backup more
> CLcd> than 2 GB onto a Windows share (on a Win2K box) (see messages
> CLcd> earlier in this forum - I have to backup a 66 GB file out of database).
>
> On the other hand, David Morel has sent me this:
>
> > for the last time, the 2Gb limitation is a problem with smbfs in 2.4
> > kernels (which smbmount uses). To circumvent it, either find urban
> > widmark's patches or use cifs with a 2.6 kernel.
> >
> > D.Morel
>
> I have not noticed that facts in my setup.
>
>

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