Trouble copying file over network

[Omar]

Please help!

Here's the ditty. A simple two-computer network, one
desktop, one laptop. The desktop has an external drive
which is shared. The laptop maps a drive to the desktop's
external drive. The laptop runs NTBackup to back itself
up to a file locally on its c: drive (to a folder called
backup; the file created by the backup is laptop.bkf).
When I try to copy the file to the the network drive, an
error message pops up:

"Cannot copy laptop: There is not enough free disk
space. Delete one or more file to free disk space, then
try again."

There's plenty of disk space everywhere (the laptop's c:
drive, the desktop's c: drive, and the external drive).
Why is this happening? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Omar

 

[Freddyb]

Please help!

Here's the ditty. A simple two-computer network, one
desktop, one laptop. The desktop has an external drive
which is shared. The laptop maps a drive to the desktop's
external drive. The laptop runs NTBackup to back itself
up to a file locally on its c: drive (to a folder called
backup; the file created by the backup is laptop.bkf).
When I try to copy the file to the the network drive, an
error message pops up:

"Cannot copy laptop: There is not enough free disk
space. Delete one or more file to free disk space, then
try again."

There's plenty of disk space everywhere (the laptop's c:
drive, the desktop's c: drive, and the external drive).
Why is this happening? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Omar

How large is the backup file and how much free space is available on
the destination drive and how much space is available on the host
drive?

 

[SteveL]

Is this something new you have installed? was it working
before? Do you have quota running? Did you assign the
correct rights? Have you tried to backup directly to the
external drive? have you checked the drive for viruses?

 

[Omar]

Unfortunately, I'm not at those computers right now. But
I know that they all have boatloads of gigabytes free.
The backup file created is about 6GB.

Thanks,

Omar

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

In which file system is the external drive formatted, NTFS or
FAT32? The FAT32 file system is limited and cannot handle files
larger than 4 Gb.

Bruce Chambers
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