The following capture for a run of ls after running close-smbsession on windows and clearing the caches on the linux client running the upstream kernel. 1 0.000000 client → server SMB2 410 Create Request File: dir;GetInfo Request FILE_INFO/SMB2_FILE_ALL_INFO;Close Request 2 0.004586 server → client SMB2 274 Create Response, Error: STATUS_USER_SESSION_DELETED;GetInfo Response, Error: STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER;Close Response, Error: STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER 9 0.024997 client → server SMB2 290 Negotiate Protocol Request 10 0.033179 server → client SMB2 566 Negotiate Protocol Response 12 0.033578 client → server SMB2 178 Session Setup Request, NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE 13 0.041297 server → client SMB2 368 Session Setup Response, Error: STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED, NTLMSSP_CHALLENGE 15 0.041792 client → server SMB2 434 Session Setup Request, NTLMSSP_AUTH, User: \user 16 0.047307 server → client SMB2 130 Session Setup Response 18 0.047832 client → server SMB2 174 Tree Connect Request Tree: \\server\root 19 0.057075 server → client SMB2 138 Tree Connect Response 20 0.057586 client → server SMB2 172 Tree Connect Request Tree: \\server\IPC$ 21 0.062169 server → client SMB2 138 Tree Connect Response 22 0.062273 client → server SMB2 410 Create Request File: dir;GetInfo Request FILE_INFO/SMB2_FILE_ALL_INFO;Close Request 23 0.069050 server → client SMB2 570 Create Response File: dir;GetInfo Response;Close Response 24 0.069943 client → server SMB2 316 Create Request File: dir;Find Request SMB2_FIND_ID_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO Pattern: * 25 0.079125 server → client SMB2 3842 Create Response File: dir;Find Response SMB2_FIND_ID_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO Pattern: * 27 0.081926 client → server SMB2 156 Find Request File: dir SMB2_FIND_ID_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO Pattern: * 28 0.093209 server → client SMB2 130 Find Response, Error: STATUS_NO_MORE_FILES SMB2_FIND_ID_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFO Pattern: * 29 0.093743 client → server SMB2 146 Close Request File: dir 30 0.099034 server → client SMB2 182 Close Response Similar pattern for stat. Best, Thiago