Comment 2 for bug 13441

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:51:36 -0800
From: Kevin Dalley <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: files missing in directory listing from smbclient 'dir' command with windows
 xp server

Package: smbclient
Version: 3.0.10-1
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

smbclient often loses files when getting a directory listing. Using
amanda for backup with samba results in loss of data, causing
incomplete backups. The problem is most likely to be occur when
dealing with larger directories, perhaps directories with over 300 or
1000 files.

I have seen the problem on my Debian system.

Here's my test, where /Kathy/DATA/2120 WNmod/ is a large directory.

for num in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do smbclient '\\puffin\c$' -U 'amanda%password' -E -d1 -Tcan /dev/null '/Kathy/DATA/2120 WNmod/*' > /tmp/foo/foolog$num.txt 2>&1; done
for num in 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do diff -u /tmp/foo/foolog1.txt
/tmp/foo/foolog${num}.txt; done

The diff output includes the following, which shows 4 files which
disappeared between the 2 runs:

--- /tmp/foo/foolog1.txt 2005-03-02 11:46:45.000000000 -0800
+++ /tmp/foo/foolog9.txt 2005-03-02 11:46:46.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 dry_run set
 Domain=[KECK] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
-tar: dumped 1193 files and directories
-Total bytes written: 807012352
+tar: dumped 1189 files and directories
+Total bytes written: 805666304

The bug has been reported to the samba bugzilla list, but the bug is
important enough to be listed under Debian as well. The bug is
considered critical on the bugzilla list. I'm marking it as grave for
Debian, though I could probably justify critical.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2271

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages smbclient depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcomerr2 1.35-6 The Common Error Description libra
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap2 2.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libreadline4 4.3-11 GNU readline and history libraries
ii samba-common 3.0.10-1 Samba common files used by both th

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