[Samba] smbclient fails to list directory >36 entries

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:30:17AM +0100, Shaun Lowry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem with smbclient from the samba-client-3.0.14a-2 package 
> supplied with Fedora Core 2.  It hangs when listing any directory with 
> over 36 items in it on one particular Windows XP Professional box I'm 
> trying to back up.  If I run smbclient -d 3, I get the following output 
> over and over when listing the directory:
> 
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> received 36 entries (eos=0)
> 
> Anyone got any clues what might be wrong here?

This is a bug we fixed when listing files from an exported
drive using a FAT filesystem. Try the 3.0.20 pre-release, the
bug is fixed there.

Jeremy.