[NTLUG:Discuss] using smbfs to transfer file between to windows computers

[Chris Cox]

David Evans wrote:
> hello all
> I am using smbfs to mount two windows boxes to a linux suse server 2.6
> kernel. When I copy a file from one windows to the other windows box I
> run into a 2 gig transfer limit. What is wrong and or has anybody else
> run into this problem
> 

You need to tell us what version of Linux.  There was a round
of smbfs implementations with a 2G limit.

Worse... smbfs doesn't work well on newer Windows networks
forcing you to use cifs... and cifs is missing a few things
yet.

So, if you have cifs, you might want to try that.

> smbmount //archive/archive /home/bltj/archive -o
> username=(whatever),password=(whatever),uid=(whatever)
> 
> smbmount //prep/prep /home/bltj/prep -o
> username=(whatever),password=(whatever),uid=(whatever)
> 
> so next I used konqueror to open the two windows shares using the
> network with the following commands in the browser window.
> 
> smb://archive/archive
> 
> smb://prep/prep
> 
> I was able to transfer a 2.7 gig file this way.
> 
> My problem is I need to mount these windows shares on boot up and run
> automatic file transfer between the two boxes using a script that I
> wrote running on the linux box. Any ideas why the transfer fails mount
> using smbfs????

Good chance you need a large file aware version of smbfs in your
kernel.

SUSE, for example, didn't have a good smbfs by default until SUSE 9.2
(I'm pretty sure about that).