[H-GEN] Problem copying files to a Wondoze NT server.

[Ewan Edwards]

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Good afternoon,

I've been having this problem copying large files to a Wondoze NT4 server 
from a RH7.1 machine.  The network share on the Windoze server is mounted via 
a line in /etc/fstab (extract below).  

//mine/apps	/mnt/apps	smbfs	rw,username= ...	0  0

The problem is that when the file size on the Windoze server gets to 2GB in 
size, the copy process just hangs.  It doesn't crash, or abort, or terminate 
with an error - just hangs there using up CPU cycles (top says its still 
running at 1-50% CPU).  I haven't encountered any problems copying files less 
than 2GB in size either direction.

I know there is no issue with Linux & ext2 file system since the files exist 
and are created on the Linux machine.  The Windoze share file system is NTFS, 
so there is no issue with file size there.  I've double checked that by 
creating and modifying a file of about 3GB on the Windows share file system.

Samba 2.2.2a is running on the RH7.1 machine, but that doesn't play a role in 
this process, as far as I know.  I can only guess it has something to do with 
the smb file system driver in the kernel on the RH7.1 machine.

Can anyone give me some clues about this?  Please ...  

Regards,
Ewan

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