Kerberos ftpd and large file support

Константин Кунщиков kvk at elbrus.ru
Fri Apr 1 03:59:29 EST 2005


Hello!

You can use SEAM ftpd included in SUN's Solaris distribution before 10 
or standard ftpd included in Solaris 10.

Best regards,
Konstantin.

>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I need to use the Kerberos implementation of the ftpd on Solaris SPARC 
>>>64bit platform for transfer of large files (> 2GB). I tryed with ftpd from 
>>>the MIT Kerberos V 1.3.6 distribution, but it is impossible.
>>>Initially I got the error "Value too large for defined data type". Then I 
>>>rebuilt the ftpd (in fact the hole Kerberos distribution) with compiler 
>>>flag -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and the error disappeared but after the 
>>>transfer of exactly 2GB of any file bigger than 2GB, the ftpd server 
>>>closes the connection.
>>>
>>>Any help and ideas are welcome.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance!
>>>      
>>>



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