Greg,

Thanks for the reply. I had to do a ftp put from the Wintell server because inbound
ftp is disabled. I tested the various methods (ascii, binary & tenex)of transfer and
tenex moves the file perfectly. Our net admin will not open any of the servers to 
ftp. Is there a way to control the type of transfer in samba? Would 'translate' help 
this. If so, how is it included in the smbclient command line. Also, the file is
used by a mpe/cobol program.


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Stigers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:41 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Samba 'get' size limitations?


IIRC, there's a known problem with bytestream emulation that affects Samba.
IIRC, Samba only knows about bytestream files; it does not understand MPE
record length. I'm fuzzy on the details. I do remember that when we wanted
to make available some ZIP files via a SAMBA share, we had to ftp them as
bytestream (type tenex, now supported), instead of binary.

In your case, it sounds like bytestream emulation is seeing fewer bytes than
there are. Are you trying to get a non-bytestream file? By any chance, does
your file have 5,400 records in it (the difference between what you want and
what you are getting), or perhaps 2,700 records (CRLF issue)?

You could also try an ftp get, just to prove that the problem is not the
file.

Greg Stigers
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