Comment 7 for bug 500195

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Did this work under a previoius release? --> I do not know.
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$ dpkg-query -W -f='${Package} ${Version} ${Source} ${Status}\n' | grep samba
libsmbclient 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3 samba install ok installed
libwbclient0 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3 samba install ok installed
samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3 samba install ok installed
samba-common-bin 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3 samba install ok installed
smbclient 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3 samba install ok installed
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How is the remote share accessed from the Ubuntu system? / Can it be accessed using smbclient? --> See previous text in this bug report.
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$ smbclient -L //freenasserver
Enter john's password:
Domain=[HOMELAN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.34]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 ShareDawn Disk Dawn's private share
 ShareJohn Disk John's private share
 ShareMusic Disk Shared music files
 SharePhoto Disk Share photo files
 ShareTemp Disk Shared tempory files
 ShareVideo Disk Shared video files
 IPC$ IPC IPC Service (FreeNAS Server)
Domain=[HOMELAN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.34]

 Server Comment
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 XXXXXXXX P4x1600
 FREENASSERVER FreeNAS Server

 Workgroup Master
 --------- -------
 HOMELAN FREENASSERVER
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Machine details: As mentioned above, this is a FreeNAS server -->
Name freenas.local
Version 0.69.2 Muad'Dib (revision 4700)
built on Thu Jun 11 00:06:51 UTC 2009
OS Version FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p5 (revision 199506)
Platform i386-embedded on AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ (1536MHz)
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Food for thought: My 28Dec2009 note (above) shows "Invalid packet length! (65576 bytes)". The value of "65576" strikes me as suspiciously close to 65536 (i.e., 16-bit max). If I had to make a guess, its not the number of files per se, but the number of files AND the length of the file names (i.e., when the directory listing is attempted). Please let me know if any other data would be of use.