[Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files

[Mitch Crane]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:33 PM
> To: Mitch Crane
> Cc: 'Jeremy Allison'; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files
> 
> Ok - the problem is this looks like a smbfs problem, not a Samba
> server problem. The Samba Team doesn't maintain smbfs - one of our
> members (Steve French from IBM) has written and maintains cifsvfs,
> the replacement for smbfs. I don't think we can promise to fix any
> smbfs problem as we aren't the maintainers.

I see. I can also reproduce the symptoms, btw, with:
smbclient //some-server/some-share -U user%pass -c 'dir foo/*' | wc -l

Though I see the missing entries less frequently (which is why I originally
thought smbclient was ok).