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Date:      Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:56:31 +0700
From:      "Supote Leelasupphakorn" <pjn0211@hotmail.com>
To:        flowers@users.sourceforge.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Able to mount samba but it's empty
Message-ID:  <BAY16-F362C2ED40D4D439CF984E1B9950@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <20050107202042.GB865@procyon.nekulturny.org>

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Hi list,

   But I do enable bigLba in Windows' registry already,
As I can use full of 200 GB capacity disk. The problem
occurred only when it was mounted Windows's disk
from FreeBSD with command: mount_smbfs, I found
nothing in the mount point.

Any comments are welcome
TIA


----Original Message Follows----
From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Supote Leelasupphakorn <pjn0211@hotmail.com>
CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Able to mount samba but it's empty
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:20:42 -0700

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:44:02PM +0700, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote:
 >
 > Hi all,
 >
 >   I'm using 4.8-RELEASE-p15 and Samba-2.2.8a for mounting
 > shared directory on Windows2000 (NTFS). So far the disk on
 > Windows2000 is only 120 GB and mounting is successful.
 >
 >   But after I changed a disk to 200GB, I can sucessfully mount
 > both 120GB and 200GB (I mean no any error message are
 > displayed) but I can't see any file in the mount point of 200GB
 > disk. I googled for a while but no any answer useful.  Is there
 > any problem with 200 GB disk on Samba-2.2.8 OR it's time to
 > upgraded the Samba's version OR I missed something ?

Is the disk in the machine running Windows 2000?  If so, you will want
to ensure that you have enabled Big LBA support on the Windows side,
if you haven't already.  There's a 137GB barrier in Windows 2k that can
cause major data loss, as I learned the hard way.  I don't know if it
has any impact on Samba, but since the drives are on either side of the
barrier it's worth looking into.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/

If you haven't enabled this yet, do it.  If you don't you will lose
data, you will lose data, you will lose data.  Even if you haven't
lost data yet, you will.  It might not make Samba work, but it will
make Windows 2000 work.

--
Danny

P.S.  I'm not kidding.  If you love your data (and who doesn't), go
enable 48 bit LBA.
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