File listing problem

[Baty, Simon (MLIM)]

I'm running samba version 2.0.4 and have a rather strange problem. I've
created 2000 empty files on a Windows 2000 server named:

simonsimons.20011214.17nnn 

where nnn is a number between 1 and 2000. 

When connecting to the sever in Unix using smbclient and doing a ls on the
directory, the smbclient just does nothing (it sits there until I break out
of it). 
If I then go into dos and delete all the files, the Unix smbclient will come
back to life and return the listing, with many files displayed over and over
again (so it displays say 65000 files rather than 2000!).

Even stranger, if the I delete 600 files so there are only about 1400 files
on the W2K directory, the smbclient does return a listing, but only lists
about 500 files.
If I change the file names from simonsimons.200011214.17nnn to
simonsimonsimonsimonsimnnn (same length), the ls works fine. 

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it! I suspect it may
be a problem with W2K as all was fine before upgrading our NT servers to
2000. 


Thanks

Simon



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