Samba is 3.04-SUSE that came with SUSE 9.1 Pro, with patches applied from SUSE  
up through mid October 2004.  
  
To reproduce, on Win98SE, J: is samba share, F: is local disk.  
in F:  
mkdir testEmpty  
cd testEmpty  
Make a new file called TEstFile.txt.  This is not known to be important, but it  
makes something in the test directory besides the empty directory.  
mkdir emptyDirectory  
In windows explorer, control-drag testEmpty to J: so as to copy it there.  
  
*I* received the error "System Error 161: The Specified Path is Invalid" from a  
directory hierarchy compare program called Dir Prudence.  
  
You can also see the error by opening a command.com window, changing directory  
to J:\testEmpty\emptyDirectory and doing a "dir".  It lists the . and ..  
entries, then prints "Extended Error 161".  
  
I would *like* to send you a level 9 samba log file, but the bug reporting 
system will not let me because it is too long.  It is just of the command 
prompt failure.  If you mail to webclark at rochester dot rr dot com and copy 
raymond.clark at xerox dot com I will send it to you promptly.  
  
I would appreciate any feedback, especially if it includes a way to make it  
work, or an indication when this might be fixed, or an indication if it will  
not be!  My intent is to migrate to linux, while depending on Win98 when I must  
have an MS platform.  
  
Thank you for your work.  You have indeed made the world a better place,  
because without interoperability with MS we would all be hosed!  
  
Ray Clark  
webclark at rochester dot rr dot com