samba - Dec 2005 - 3.0.20b and Nonalphabetical File Lists on Windows Boxes

Hello:

(Please forgive me if this has already been asked and answered...but if 
it has, I sure can't find it anywhere...)

I'm running 3.0.20b on a Fedora Core 4 box (although I've seen the same 
results with a FC4 stock 3.0.14a release) and my Windows XP boxes 
(service pack 2) that are on my LAN. 

What I'm seeing is an inability for the machines to read a list of files 
in alphabetical order, with the folders at the top, and the files at the 
bottom.  The machines show a list in "normal" fashion (that is, with
the
folders in alpha order first, then the files in alpha order) when I look 
at a local drive, but when I hit the Samba server, the files take on a 
weird format that I can only imagine is the order that they are stored 
on the disk.

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here, asking you all instead of 
Microsoft...but I'm taking the chance that I'll get a better (at least 
more technical) response here. :-)

Thanks in advance for any assistance that you all can provide!
-Jonathon Schrader
jlschrad<at>jlschraddotnet

Jonathon Schrader wrote:
> I'm running 3.0.20b on a Fedora Core 4 box (although I've seen the
same
> results with a FC4 stock 3.0.14a release) and my Windows XP boxes 
> (service pack 2) that are on my LAN.
> What I'm seeing is an inability for the machines to read a list of
files
> in alphabetical order, with the folders at the top, and the files at the 
> bottom.
Possibly it is related to Bug 3269 which I opened. This bug is related to wild
cards showing more files than it should as the wild card spec does not match a
file returned. I would have thought alpha
order sort, like "DIR /O", would be a client side thing, but I really
don't know for sure. With the wild card bug it makes me wonder if the sort
is maybe done by the server over the CIFS protocol.

Currently there has been no comment on the bug report, thus no clue if this type
of issue is on the developer's radar map already and they are just choosing
not to take the time to "mark as dupe" or
what actually might be the status of this. So, join the ??? club. ;-)

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Michael Lueck
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