late to the party?
2008.03.28
samba/smbfs will not handle writing files larger than 2gb. ‘smbount -o lfs’ will not work.
if you want to write files larger than 2gb, use cifs.
mount -t cifs //server/share /mount/point -o credentials=creds.txt,rw or something of the like.
maybe everyone else knew this, i didn’t.