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Is there any particular reason why I can't transfer files 2GB's or larger to the Amahi server over smb from a WIndows client? Been googling for info on Samba and large file support and haven't found anything helpful yet.

may not have to do with samba or amahi.

i move large files all the time (8GB+).

is the destination system FAT by any chance?

that would explain it, as FAT cannot take over 2GB, i think.

its ext3

That is a strange problem, is this perhaps an unpatched version of XP/Vista? I remember hearing of some problems a while ago where Windows Explorer (the file browser and likely how you are copying files) has trouble copying large files. Found another forum thread about this, maybe it's the same issue? (I didn't finish the thread, but it seemed like a similar issue to yours)

http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=92437

i have all the latest updates installed for my XP workstations. It is strange indeed considering the files I had originally copied perfectly fine to a FreeNAS box and managed to copy back to the XP workstations just before formating and installing FC9/Amahi on to that same machine.

The error I get from Windows is that the destination is either full or write protected. Which is not the case as files under 2GB write to the drive fine. and df gives me this



/dev/sdc1 is the drive I'm trying to write to over SMB/CIFS

you can try to set
(or 5) in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf

and then cause the error and see the last file logged in /var/log/samba/
(ls -lt /var/log/samba/) at the end to see if the error is given.

Are you sure that the user you're connecting as over samba has write permissions to the shared folders?

yeah im pretty sure my user works considering its the same one that i wrote the current 8.5GB of data to the share with.

hmm, interesting mystery!

does it fail right away or at the end of the write?

how long does it take to fail? i had the same problem w/ a different server i used to have, and the issue was the on-access AV scanner was taking so long to scan the incoming file (when >2GB) that the transfer would time out.