When using the OS/2 "xcopy /S/E" command on large directory trees, it fails
when it encounters empty subdirs.

Solution:

in file .../smbd/trans2.c -> function static int call_trans2findfirst()
...
around line 1500 in latest svn build 5340
...
  /*
   * If there are no matching entries we must return ERRDOS/ERRbadfile -
   * from observation of NT.
   */

  if(numentries == 0) {
    dptr_close(&dptr_num);
-    return ERROR_DOS(ERRDOS,ERRbadfile);
+    return ERROR_DOS(ERRDOS,ERRnofiles);
  }

...


os2 needs ERRnofiles, if it was a valid wildcard "*" search
and the path was correct at all.
WinNt, w2k also return this, when being accessed from an os2
or windows client!

I have written a small os2 applet to check this special
situation against samba, winnt and win2k (w2k3 has not been tested).
Samba is the only one, which returns "ERRbadfile", all others return
"ERRnofiles".

This change has been heavily tested by team SambaOS/2 - and
it should not break any other client. (hopefully)
It was not tested against a w2k3 server.

btw - this fix is _not_ related to the error code 161 (0xa1), which
is returned, when a "dir" is done on an empty subdir (using cmd.exe).
I'll post another bugfix, which will address that 161 error, because
that one also affects xcopy in some ugly way.

btw - this bug and the 161 bug might also affect Win98 systems (?)

Best wishes to the samba team.

Guenter Kukkukk
Entwicklungsbuero fuer Informationstechnologien
Damaschkestr. 24
10711 Berlin - Germany