smbfs 2 GB file size limit

[David Horn]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona
<derek at computinginnovations.com> 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 ?

What is the server software and OS version ?
(if Microsoft Windows, please include Service Pack number as well, as
it might make a difference)
How much disk space is left on your server volume ?
Are there disk quotas enabled on the server ?
What error message are you getting from your FreeBSD client (if any) ?
Can you check the smb server logs and see if you are getting any error
messages there ?
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)

>  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.

>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry I do not have a good solution for you.  Perhaps someone else
will give you better advice.

Good Luck!

-_Dave Horn
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>        -Derek
>        derek at computinginnovations.com
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