NAS File too big

[andywt]

I recently added a Promise NAS to my network to host a number of large files that had previously been on a PC mapped drive. A number of these files are .iso file. The mapped drive on the PC was accessible from my Mac. When I double-clicked one of the .iso files it mounted it on my Mac desktop and everything worked fine.

When I do the same from the NAS, I am getting an error message "the document x.iso can't be opened. The file is too large." Any ideas why this is occuring?

 

[Sethable]

is your nas formatted in fat32?

 

[andywt]

No. The NAS is actually a Linux box. The Windows shared folder was on a NTFS disk system.

 

[Sethable]

is the has using fat 32 to try to stay compatible across platform. If so you can't go over something like a 4 gig file. It happened to me in the past.

 

[andywt]

It is a standard Linux file system. I believe it use Samba to allow PCs to mount it. The file over 4GB are there. I can mount them from the NAs on a Windows box, but not on the Mac.

 

[Sethable]

That's no fun.
Sorry I don't have any other answers for you then. looks like your stuck copying the file to the mac first.

silly question. do u have free disk space on your mac?

 

[Cromulent]

It is a standard Linux file system. I believe it use Samba to allow PCs to mount it. The file over 4GB are there. I can mount them from the NAs on a Windows box, but not on the Mac.

Try using NFS to access the NAS on the Mac rather than Samba.

 

[andywt]

I am new to the Mac. How do you do an NFS mount/access?