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2005 Oct 25
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Large Directories Timeout smbfs & Windows
...e timeouts occur when doing an "ls" on Linux with smbfs or
opening the share's folder on Windows.
Looking at debug logs shows that Samba is in the middle of
doing a TRANSACT2_FINDFIRST (call_trans2findfirst in the code)
where it calls SMB_VFS_OPENDIR, reads all of the entries
through SMB_VFS_READDIR, and then closes the directory with
SMB_VFS_CLOSEDIR before sending any reply at all to the
client.
When either Linux or Windows times out, both will start a
new Samba connection to the share (a new child smbd pid)
and start the whole process over again. Windows does eventually
give up and give u...