[cifs-protocol] [MS-CIFS] Trans2FindFirst/FindNext

[Sreekanth Nadendla]

Hello Gordon Ross,
                                Thank you for your inquiry about [MS-CIFS] protocol. One of the Open specifications team member will contact you shortly.

Regards,
Sreekanth Nadendla
Microsoft Windows Open Specifications
Email: srenaden at microsoft.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.ross at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:34 PM
To: Interoperability Documentation Help
Cc: cifs-protocol at samba.org
Subject: [MS-CIFS] Trans2FindFirst/FindNext

Hi DocHelp people,

I a questions about windows client behavior involving SMB Transact2 FindFirst/FindNext, as described in MS-CIFS 2.2.6.3.1.

We have a Windows 7 (x64) client that appears to be repeatedly requesting a directory listing when Windows Explorer is asked to show large directory on our server.  The directory has about 20,000 folders.

The only obvious difference we see when comparing with a Windows server (2k8r2) is that we return the directory contents in the order found on-disk (which is in general, not sorted).

I'd appreciate suggestions on how to track down what might be the reason for the Windows client repeating the findfirst/findnext
requests as we observe.   Should we provide a TTT from the windows
client?

Thanks,
Gordon