Error: "Not enough free disk space" when there is plenty of space

Make sure that the drive you are attempting to save to does not have a quota imposed on the hard drive. Right click on the drive on the remote computer and go to properties and the quota tab.  Ensure it is turned off. Quatas make it so that any one user can't store over xxx amount of data on a drive.

have you check that the machine with the 4gb file has at least 4gb available ? THe system may be trying to "prepare" for download first.

Adamsonk,
The file space is pretty close.  The size of the file I am trying to copy is 4.24gb and the space available on the drive is 4.69GB.  Is there overhead involved in preparing the file for copying?

THere is overhead but I cannot tell you how much. Your cutting it pretty close though. Do you have another partition to move it? Then again, the issue may be the same. I think the easiest and quickest solutio is just to use FTP. Install ftp service on one of the machines and transfer it that way. It will even be quicker than using windows copy because of netbios and network overhead. A straight tcp connection is much faster.

I think ericb is correct... there is some overhead.  You could also try to move the file from the other computer if you have access to it. That way it is the one caching and preparing for the transfer.

I freed up space on the drive I am copying from to get it up to 6.49GB avail and tried again to copy the file over to the other drive still no success with same error msg.  Not sure how to install FTP on one of the machines or if I want to.  One of the machines is my primary file server running Windows 2000 server.  The other machine is just a workstation on the network with a big drive on it.  I let my notebook users back up their notebooks weekly and then I pull the back up files off the server over onto this large drive.  I don't want my tape having to back up backups and eating up space and backup time.
Can I install FTP on the workstation I am trying to move the file to?  This workstation is just a Windows XP Pro machine and is a computer on the domain.

Yes, go to add remove program, windows components, IIS and click on ftp and then install.

I would personnaly try to go to the other computer on the domain and Map a drive to the computer you are trying to copy from: e.g. \\Delcomputer\c$. It may ask you for a password to do this as you are a regular user at this point (you could log on as administrator too however) but should work. If you do want to set up FTP you can go to add remove programs under IIS and install the FTP service, however, you may get into a little bit of an issue with DNS and Firewalls if you have SP2 installed.

Adam, ftp is much much faster than windows copy. BUt eseentialy you are correct, cross share the file and copy. The advantage with FTP is depending on the ftp software, you can open many more channels/sockets for downloads and some let you use the reget command in case it fails in the middle.

Oh ya,

You do it like this:

convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

Don't worry it is a non-destructive conversion.

jgraham0803
This could be the problem.  My drive I am copying from is an NTFS network drive and the drive on the Windows XP Pro machine was set up with Fat 32.  I will convert the Windows XP workstation to NTFS and see if it lets me transfer the file after that.  I will let you know later if this works.  Thanks

You'll be fine. :) Been through this many times heh.

Wow. Didnt even think of it since I thought no one used fat32 anymore LOL :) Kudos to Jgraham if this is the problem.

I was ok with how to convert the drive and the conversion is in process right now.  Hopefully this is the problem.  I agreewit ericb I did not even think of this but this workstation was one we bought before I started setting up all drives with NTFS.  I have had to run this conversion on several of our older machines so I could encrypt folders on some of our drives.  Old hand at doing the conversion <GRIN>  Again... I will try the file copy after the conversion and let you know how it goes.  
Thanks for all the quick responses

jgraham0903
You are da man !!!  Conversion done and the file transferred just fine.  I accepted your answer as you see and you are now the man with the points !!!  Thanks to all for the help.

Good Job jgraham... learn something new everyday :-)

you could give assisted points :)

ericb....
I am still new at this awarding points I will do better next time :-)

:) no worries.

I have the same issue and I agree with the 4 GB limit (basics but forgotten with time) :)

However, the work around is to split the file using some software in to smaller than 4 GB files and then then transfer.

When you need to use it in the future, just transfer the pieces back to an NTFS partition and join them back :)

That's what I am going to do :)

Dhaval