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

[David Evans]

suse server 2.6.5-7.201-smp #1


Chris Cox wrote:

>David Evans wrote:
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>>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
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>You need to tell us what version of Linux.  There was a round
>of smbfs implementations with a 2G limit.
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>Worse... smbfs doesn't work well on newer Windows networks
>forcing you to use cifs... and cifs is missing a few things
>yet.
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>So, if you have cifs, you might want to try that.
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>>smbmount //archive/archive /home/bltj/archive -o
>>username=(whatever),password=(whatever),uid=(whatever)
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>>smbmount //prep/prep /home/bltj/prep -o
>>username=(whatever),password=(whatever),uid=(whatever)
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>>so next I used konqueror to open the two windows shares using the
>>network with the following commands in the browser window.
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>>smb://archive/archive
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>>smb://prep/prep
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>>I was able to transfer a 2.7 gig file this way.
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>>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????
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>Good chance you need a large file aware version of smbfs in your
>kernel.
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>SUSE, for example, didn't have a good smbfs by default until SUSE 9.2
>(I'm pretty sure about that).
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