From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 12:07:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA91D1065677 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:07:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998E28FC14 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:07:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mAIC716G019830; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:07:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20081118055913.026155c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:06:26 -0600 To: "David Horn" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <25ff90d60811172223t226714aq6e8202b19a2c8bfb@mail.gmail.com > References: <6.0.0.22.2.20081117193403.025dfa50@mail.computinginnovations.com> <25ff90d60811172223t226714aq6e8202b19a2c8bfb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081117-0, 11/17/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94-exp/8645/Mon Nov 17 22:30:32 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: mAIC716G019830 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:07:05 -0000 At 12:23 AM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: >On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona > 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 ? It was 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) Windows 2003 server 32bit. >How much disk space is left on your server volume ? Over a terabyte free >Are there disk quotas enabled on the server ? None >What error message are you getting from your FreeBSD client (if any) ? No error message, it just stopped writing at 1 Gb. I was doing this using scp. >Can you check the smb server logs and see if you are getting any error >messages there ? Well I'm just mounting the volume to FreeBSD from the Windows server so not sure I'll find much in the logs besides the system log, but I will look. >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) I saw posts to that effect and that you needed samba 3.x to support large files sizes, and the lfs option. But the mount_smbfs doesn't offer any large file option. > > 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. I saw that as an option. I may try that to test this issue. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > >Sorry I do not have a good solution for you. Perhaps someone else >will give you better advice. Thanks for the help! -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.