Samba and the 2-gigabyte limit

[Peter Lieverdink]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:26 -0600, Michael Moore wrote:
> > Hm, yesterday I found something similar when copying from a
> > debian-machine to a smb-mounted WinXP-Share.
> > There was a "file size limit exceeded" or similar with about 2GB file
> > size.
> > Maybe a limit for samba?
> > Jakob
> 
> It may be your Windows partition too. What's its format?
> 
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FAT32 has that issue, I think. I've previously copied an 18GB file from
Linux to Windows XP NTFS via samba without any problems.

That said, if the debian machine uses woody this may happen, because the
default kernel and libc6 are a bit old now. Sarge should not have that
problem. Then again, that's a debian issue, not a ubuntu one ;-) 

- P.