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Re: Copying Large Files >2Gb to smbfs mount



On Wednesday August 3 2005 14:52, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:

> Christof Hurschler schreef:

> > I thought that the file size limit for NTFS was much bigger
> > than 2Gb.  Is this maybe a samba limitation?
>
> Not that I know: I have copied 4 Gb (Debian ISO images) back and forth
> between Debian Sarge with Version 3.0.14a-Debian and W2K SP4 machines.

That's because the W2k machines probably used CIFS and not SMB. SMB, at least 
like Samba uses it, does have a 2GiB limit, CIFS does not.

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