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

[Chris Cox]

David Evans wrote:
> suse server 2.6.5-7.201-smp #1

That probably qualifies for the bug!
:(

So you are running SLES 9?

The cifs mounter is supported by Samba (unlike smbfs)...
you might want to look into that.

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> Chris Cox wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
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>>> 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????
>>>   
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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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