samba - Aug 1998 - LINUX: smbclient and smbfs CRASHES with binary files

Hello to all,

I connect from a Linux machine (als client)
to an NT4 (service pack 3)  server.

On Linux side I use:
kernel 2.0.34
samba 1.9.18p8
smbfs-2.0.2

I connect from the Linux PC via PPP  ( with MS-CHAP) to the NT4 server.

I tested first with smbclient:

I can upload to the NT4 server text files of any dimension,
( with CR LFs )

but when I try to send binary files,
(an ELF linux executable for example)

IT DOES NOT WORK.

smbclient , after a long timeout says me:

Error writing remote file (2)

and smbclient does not exits.

putting short binary files ( < 512 bytes ) works.

but even when sending text files,
sometimes the smbclient dumps core !!!!

you can find one of my core files at

http://www.gardena.net/benno/smbclient_core.gz

I made the same tests with
smbfs 2.0.2

after callling smbmount , the directory is mounted,
uploading text files works, and with binary the
cp process hangs, and I must kill -9 the process.

Are these problems perhaps caused from the
win NT4 machine ?

PLEASE REPLY BY E-MAIL TOO, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T
SUBSCRIBED TO THE SAMBA MAILING-LISTS.

thank you for all the help.

best regards,

Benno.