2G filesize limit on network copyForum: Networking Topic: 2G filesize limit on network copy started by: dtf Posted by dtf on Sep. 25 2006,12:52
I use DSL as a low power OS for a home network file/print server. I recently tried to save a video file to my server but the copy would not exceed 2G filesize using both ftp and samba. I found a thread in the forum addressing a similar issue which suggested adding gnu-utils.dsl. Unfortunately this did not solve my problem.DSL works well as a small network OS but this is one limitation that I would like to resolve as it limits what I can put on my file server. Ideas and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 25 2006,14:38
Maybe this could help: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....11;st=5 >Seems like DSL's samba doesn't have lfs for samba.. or maybe you just have to specify -o lfs manually perhaps? If you don't plan on copying 2gb+ files often, you can just use ssh/other p2p software, or split the files. Afaik adding the gnu-utils only solved the local copy limitation of the built-in busybox (lfs support not compiled in). It also could be that your fs is limited to 2gb (using fat?), or a problem on your clientside's too. Posted by dtf on Sep. 26 2006,19:10
^thehatsrule^ - thanks for the help. I actually was able to copy a large video file to my server using scp and do a mv on the file to a samba share. While this lets me store the file on the network share, I still can not watch it over the network because samba cannot handle it. From the thread you pointed me to I did not understand where I would find the smbd and nmbd that was suggested I replace. Do you know where I can find these objects? I am not sure which version of samba I need to used to pull the smbd and nmbd from. I did rebuild samba from their latest release on a DSL box but my smbd and mnbd would not start. Perhaps I need to install all the products built with the rebuild. Or maybe there are other dependencies that I am not considering. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 27 2006,00:22
I suppose either from the official debian apt repos, or some other .deb? You could compile it as well - just something probably went wrong there :P (any error messages?) Posted by dtf on Sep. 27 2006,00:49
No error message. Got all the products. Maybe there are some tweaks that make it work with DSL that I am not familar with or maybe you need to build with a certain version of samba.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 27 2006,01:44
Did it just quit right away, or perhaps it's running automatically in the background?
Posted by dtf on Sep. 27 2006,02:34
to start it I dosmbd start and then to see if it running I do a ps ax |grep smbd When I do this with the smbd official DSL version it show it is running but my complied version does not. Also you can not see any window's share. |