-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hibbard Smith a écrit : > I tried to access these shares from Windows XP Pro SP2 and got identical > results. Ext3 filesystems smaller than 2 GB work fine. Anything bigger > than 2 GB and xfs filesystems of any size fails. > > I guess I'm going to have to resort to reading code, posting on bugzilla as > a bug and maybe switching to a Windows based server. I really need to get > this system up and doing its intended job. > > I'd really like to hear from someone that they are actually exporting ext3 > filesystems larger than 2 GB and xfs filesystems and it's working. If > they're doing so with the Fedora core 4 release, that would definitely point > to something strange here. > > Smitty > Hibbard T. Smith, JR > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig White >> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:29 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba >> >> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 12:00 -0500, Hibbard Smith wrote: >>> I'm a relative newcomer to Samba, but very experienced with computers >> and >>> linux. I'm attempting to build a file/backup server for a small shop. >> I'm >>> using Fedora core 4 and samba on a system with a 2.1 TB RAID 50 array >>> formatted as 1 very large xfs partition. I want to share directories >>> (folders) within the partition with a few Windows XP-Pro SP2 systems >> which >>> are our primary work-stations. Currently I'm running samba-3.0.21b. I >>> started with the 3.0.14 that was released with FC4, but upgraded to the >>> "latest and greatest" when I couldn't make the original work correctly. >> The >>> kernel has also been upgraded to the Fedora released 2.6.14.1-1656-FC4- >> SMP. >>> >>> >>> Our business is primarily imaging and video. A large percentage of our >>> files are over 2 GB with some way over that. Therefore, the only way >> this >>> could be useful is with very large shared file systems. >>> >>> >>> >>> Here are the issues and my questions: >>> >>> >>> >>> When I try to share this large partition (2.1 TB xfs) and use smbclient >> to >>> access it, the log records an error which states that "the share doesn't >>> exist or can't be accessed The error was access denied". I've made the >> share >>> mode 0777 just to make sure permissions wouldn't get in the way. If I >> move >>> the share to an ext3 file system that's smaller than 2 GB it works >>> correctly. Any file system over 2 GB or any size xfs file system >> produces >>> the error. I haven't even tried to access the shares from a Windows >> system >>> yet, I'm just using smbclient on the Fedora system. I'm pretty sure >> I've >>> got the config and permissions right because just changing the share to >> an >>> ext3 file system under 2 GB works fine. >>> >>> >>> >>> So, here's my question(s): >>> >>> >>> >>> 1) Does samba work with xfs file systems? >>> >>> >>> >>> 2) Does samba work with large file systems (2 GB +)? >>> >>> >>> >>> 3) If the answer to the above is yes, what might I be doing wrong? >>> >>> >>> >>> I haven't been able to find limits documented anywhere. However, I see >> a >>> great deal of discussion on the web about files over 2 GB along with >>> suggestions that they work fine. This would imply that file systems of >> over >>> 2 GB must work okay. I've also seen much discussion which would suggest >>> that xfs works fine also. All this discussion seems to indicate that >> I've >>> got something wrong. I'm just not sure what it is or how to proceed. I >>> have turned samba debugging up and the logs show that the correct >> user/group >>> is being used and that case is working okay. So, I'm really confused and >> I >>> sure would appreciate any help. I really need to get this done and I >> don't >>> like the alternative (Windows Server 2003). >>> >> ---- >> I don't use smbclient much at all but am of the belief that smbclient >> application would use an smbfs type mount and my understanding is that >> an smbfs mount would error on files > 2Gb whereas the cifs mount would >> not. >> >> samba should have no problems with filesystem of that size. >> >> Craig >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba What exactly is the error in samba log ? Can you verify the mount point description and the right of directory that you want to share. Could you send your smb.conf ?
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