smbclient currently uses spaces in directory listing as separators for field justification and so there's no way to distinguish "separator" spaces and "filename" spaces. In the example below "Ainsi Soit Je " directory is actually with one space at the end of dirname. It would be useful if field separator character could be specified by some commandline option or just replaced to tab. $ smbclient //t/music -Uguest% -D "Mylene Farmer" -c ls Domain=[DEBIAN_FANS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.2a-Debian] . D 0 Fri Jul 11 02:54:34 2003 .. D 0 Mon Mar 8 18:02:28 2004 Ainsi Soit Je D 0 Fri Jul 11 02:54:46 2003 61430 blocks of size 524288. 1927 blocks available
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2769 ***