Hello all. I'm using Samba 2.0.7 on Linux, and I've been having a problem I can't figure out. I was backing up a coworker's machine using the smbclient tar capability. He's got Win2k. I was looking at the tar file that was generated, and in some of the deeply nested directories, I'd get stuff like this: ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/activem.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/activep.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/collapse.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/expand.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/first.gifY\031 ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/home.giff?\030 ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/ielogo.gif\\030 ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img001.GIF\\\\030 ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img002.GIF\\\\\\\\030\201 ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img003.GIF ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img004.GIFg002.GI\201 I examined the .tar file, at the names that had garbage trailing did not have the NULL at the end of the name. Additionally, you'd get truncated file names too: ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/collapse.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/expand.gi ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/first.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/home.gif ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/ielogo.gi ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/img001.GI I'm fairly sure it has nothing to do with the way clitar.c handles long filenames with extension blocks, because we created a fake, deeply nested test directory that worked fine. What is really weird is that in the debugged output, all of these files are listed correctly, both in the name reported by the SMB protocol and in the names passed to the tar functions. Observe (corresponds to last 4 files listed in top tar file output): dos_clean_name [\Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img001.GIF] file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img001.GIF attrib 0x1 getting file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img001.GIF of size 639 bytes as a tar file img001.GIFWriteTarHdr, Type = 0, Size= 639, Name = \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img001.GIF WriteTarHdr, Type = L, Size= 109, Name = /./@LongLink File name in tar file: ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img001.GIF, size=109, nread=0 write_socket(4,59) write_socket(4,59) wrote 59 size=699 smb_com=0x2e -- smb_bcc=0 dos_clean_name [\Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img002.GIF] file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img002.GIF attrib 0x1 getting file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img002.GIF of size 639 bytes as a tar file img002.GIFWriteTarHdr, Type = 0, Size= 639, Name = \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img002.GIF WriteTarHdr, Type = L, Size= 109, Name = /./@LongLink File name in tar file: ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img002.GIF, size=109, nread=0 write_socket(4,59) write_socket(4,59) wrote 59 size=699 smb_com=0x2e -- smb_bcc=0 dos_clean_name [\Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img003.GIF] file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img003.GIF attrib 0x1 getting file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img003.GIF of size 639 bytes as a tar file img003.GIFWriteTarHdr, Type = 0, Size= 639, Name = \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img003.GIF WriteTarHdr, Type = L, Size= 109, Name = /./@LongLink File name in tar file: ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img003.GIF, size=109, nread=0 write_socket(4,59) write_socket(4,59) wrote 59 size=699 smb_com=0x2e -- smb_bcc=0 dos_clean_name [\Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img004.GIF] file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img004.GIF attrib 0x1 getting file \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img004.GIF of size 639 bytes as a tar file img004.GIFWriteTarHdr, Type = 0, Size= 639, Name = \Projects\From MM58836\SPC internal Web\New Site\groups\SLPG\projects\STRICOM_TIE_speech\_vti_cnf\img004.GIF WriteTarHdr, Type = L, Size= 109, Name = /./@LongLink File name in tar file: ./Projects/From MM58836/SPC internal Web/New Site/groups/SLPG/projects/STRICOM_TIE_speech/_vti_cnf/img004.GIF, size=109, nread=0 write_socket(4,59) write_socket(4,59) wrote 59 size=699 smb_com=0x2e Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening? It's a real problem. Thanks, Neil Goldberg