George Abdelmalik wrote:

>
> Has anybody had any similar experiences with smbfs?  or Is this a 
> known issue?
>
I've since discovered a posting on a FreeBSD mailing list 
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/64719) which describes 
this exact same problem in their 4.9 release.  The problem is reported 
to be fixed in release 4.10.

As the NetBSD smbfs is a port from FreeBSD's implementation it is very 
likely that this problem has been inherited.

Any thoughts appreciated.

george.