samba - Aug 2008 - Samba/Linux CIFS client symlinks cause freeze

Symlinks are causing my the Linux CIFS v1.47 client to fail with 
Samba 3.0.24 with Unix Extensions turned on.  The messages I am getting 
are in the syslog are:

Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: server not 
responding
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: server not 
responding
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 50 m
id 8596
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 162 mid 8597
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 50 m
id 8593
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 162 mid 8601
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 117 mid 8600
Jul 30 21:22:05 dagda kernel: [88044.980000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 162 mid 8599
Jul 30 21:22:08 dagda kernel: [88048.416000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 162 mid 8598
Jul 30 21:22:08 dagda kernel: [88048.416000]  CIFS VFS: No response for 
cmd 162 mid 8588

Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?