[Samba] Invalid Argument ls dir mounted share

[Chris Smith]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Max Kipness wrote:
>  Also some of the files names have pound signs and some file
> names start with a number. The strange thing is that if I move all files
> except for 47 of the files, I can do the 'ls' from linux. However, if I add
> the 48th file back to this directory I start getting the 'Invalid Argument'
> error again. I tested other directories with more than 48 files and never
> get this error, so it has something to do with these files and having more
> than 48. I also moved the files to a different folder, and still had the
> same error reading the new folder contents.

Are all of the filenames valid in the Linux world?

What happens if you use smbfs instead of cifs?

If you copy all of the files to another folder and do a mass rename 
substituting all non-alphanumeric characters with alphanumeric ones what 
happens?

Could it be a character encoding issue?

Have you examined all of the mount.cifs options (man mount.cifs)?

Chris