[Samba] smbclient hangs

Tony Earnshaw tonye at billy.demon.nl
Wed Jun 1 09:01:41 GMT 2005


ons, 01.06.2005 kl. 01.26 skrev Jeremy Allison:

> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:09:15PM +0200, Mair Wolfgang-awm013 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm having problems with using smbclient on a win2k share. The server runs samba 3.0.14a on Solaris 9.
> > 
> > I want to tar the whole directory of a share. Into a file on the server
> > 
> > What I found out so far is, that it works until a maximum file count of 35. It is not size dependant but if the file count in that share exceeds more than 35 the smbclient hangs for ever and with the time is consuming up all the available memory. Until the server hangs as well due to a lack of memory space. 
> > 
> > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> This is probably the "infinate spin" reading directories
> bug which we've fixed in SVN. Try this patch for 3.0.14a.

FWIW this patch fixed exactly the same problem as OP's that I had with
3.0.14a/RHAS3. I posted this, can't find my original posting to quote.

Many thanks for the patch.

--Tonni

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