[Samba] directory listing problem

[Andrew Geery]

I have samba (3.0.0-15) mounted an NT directory to a Linux machine 
(Fedora 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl). Everything looks fine until I read get a 
directory listing with lots of files in it. Samba reports different 
numbers of files at different times.

while [ 1 ]; do echo `date` "->" `ls -1 | wc -l`; done
Fri Apr 2 13:52:10 EST 2004 -> 38763
Fri Apr 2 13:52:13 EST 2004 -> 38720
Fri Apr 2 13:52:16 EST 2004 -> 38753
Fri Apr 2 13:52:19 EST 2004 -> 38719
Fri Apr 2 13:52:22 EST 2004 -> 38763
Fri Apr 2 13:52:25 EST 2004 -> 38763
Fri Apr 2 13:52:28 EST 2004 -> 38744
Fri Apr 2 13:52:31 EST 2004 -> 38759
...

I've seen various messages posted about this problem, but I haven't 
found a solution. Any ideas/hints?

Thanks
Andrew

http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2003-May/003182.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-April/042333.html
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2002-November/025587.html