I've already posted about this problem twice to the samba list and once to samba-bugs (19990301); no response, so I retry. A win95 pc, and a linux 2.0.33 with: 1) smbclient1.9.18 (patched to restore subdirs) 2) smbclient2.0.2 or smbclient2.0.3. or smbclient 2.0.4b On the win95 pc there's a share, this share contains a dir with: MB 4 Files 142 Subdirs 2 Tarring from the pc to the linux box takes: 1.9.18: 10sec 2.0.2/2.0.3/2.0.4b: 10sec Restoring from the linux box to the pc takes: 1.9.18: 10sec 2.0.2/2.0.3/2.0.4b: 7min 30sec The tar made with 2.0.x is restored in 10sec if I use smbclient1.9.18. I used: smbclient '\\pc\share' -N -Tc filename.tar smbclient '\\pc\share' -N -Tx filename.tar Is this a smbclient problem? Thanks.