Re: [Sheflug] SAMBA directory problem

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Denis Nikitin" uttered these words of wisdom:
> Hi All,
> I wonder if there is a limit on directory size for smbfs mounted
> filesystem?
> We have RedHat 8 (with samba-2.2.8a-1) mounting shares from W2K server.
> One of the folders on W2k machine has about 2000 files in it and when
> issuing 'ls' from Linux it won't show anything!

Which kernel is that with (do uname -a) ? A quick google shows that it
looks like it's a bug with smbfs in some kernel versions (certainly
kernels < 2.2.18), and possibly some 2.4 ones.

Chris...

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