[Samba] troubles deleting lots of files

[debinskir at post.ch]

hello everyone,

i encountered a very strange problem and hope that someone out there knows a
solution. that is, when i'm deleting several tousand files with a batch
script on a samba share, windows says: "the system could not find the path
specified" and deletes just approximatly one third of the files. this only
occures if i'm delete explicitly from a dos shell using E:\>del *.pdf. if i
mark all files in the explorer and click on delete it works fine.

our configuration consists of a sun sunfire 6800 with solaris 8 as samba
fileserver and a hp pentium 3 machine with windows 2000 as client. network
works fine so far (according to ftp tests 11mbytes/s) except that taking
files from the share to a local drive on the windows machine takes twice the
time than putting a file from the local win drive on the share. but i
understand that this can be fixed by setting send/read buffer down.

what could be the reason that windows cannot find most of the files by
deleting? and how to solve this? 

many thanks for your help.

greetz & have phun

Raphael Debinski
Systemspezialist Unix

Die Schweizerische Post
PostFinance
Informatik 
CH-3030 Bern

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