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Posted: Sep. 25 2006,12:52 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Sep. 25 2006,14:38 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Sep. 26 2006,19:10 QUOTE
^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.
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Posted: Sep. 27 2006,00:22 QUOTE
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"with a version compiled for large files. Got this from a standard debian compilation for i386."

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?)
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Posted: Sep. 27 2006,00:49 QUOTE
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.
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