severity 309798 important thanks Hi folks,
Ok, with some hints in the right direction and a little bit of guesswork, I've been able to reproduce this bug. It appears that this bug *only* manifests on shares that are hosted on VFAT filesystems -- not on NTFS. Apparently, 2K does not respond the same to search continuation requests on VFAT as it does on NTFS, and ends up in a loop where it repeatedly sends the same data. (This is the trigger; it's not a fixed number of files in the directory, it's the size of the directory data being sent and whether the server has to split it between multiple PDUs.) Since so far this is only reproducible on 2K or XP servers using VFAT, which is a fairly uncommon configuration that will decrease in relevance during sarge's lifetime, I don't believe this bug should be considered release-critical for sarge; though I will certainly do what I can to help the Samba Team get the bug fixed. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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