[Gllug] Samba, Win98se & 4GB+ files

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Wed Jun 9 14:44:13 UTC 2004


Peter Ball wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Does anyone know if its possible to read and write files larger than 4GB from Win98se client 
> on a simple Samba file server ?
> 
> I believe that its the Fat32 file system rather than Win98se which limits the file size - but I'm 
> not 100% sure.

I have had the same problem writing a +4GB file directly to a fat32 
partition on the same machine using Linux (Fedora Core 2), so I guess it 
is an FS problem.

Will.
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