[Samba] WG: troubles deleting lots of files

[debinskir at post.ch]

> hello,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> what could be the reason that windows cannot find most of the files by deleting? and how to solve this? 
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> many thanks for your help.
> 
> greetz & have phun
> 
> Raphael Debinski
> Systemspezialist Unix
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> Die Schweizerische Post
> PostFinance
> Informatik 
> CH-3030 Bern
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