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Odd configuration limitation. Seems smbfs has a 2GB file size limit. When smbmount is used it calls smbfs. Yes, I should implement NFS, but I have a few perfectly good samba shares and I want to use them.
Solution, rather than doing
which is basically identical to
do
Side note, that samba name may not be known to this linux box, use
to get the IP Address
If you read this far, note hollow1 is a headless server. Yes, there's a joke in there somewhere. No, geek humor is does not have a wider audience waiting for it.
Odd configuration limitation. Seems smbfs has a 2GB file size limit. When smbmount is used it calls smbfs. Yes, I should implement NFS, but I have a few perfectly good samba shares and I want to use them.
Solution, rather than doing
smbmount //hollow1/data2 /mnt/data2which is basically identical to
mount -t cifs //hollow1/data2 /mnt/data2do
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.220/data2 /mnt/data2Side note, that samba name may not be known to this linux box, use
nmblookup hollow1to get the IP Address
If you read this far, note hollow1 is a headless server. Yes, there's a joke in there somewhere. No, geek humor is does not have a wider audience waiting for it.
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