samba question!

Hy people, I have a strage problem here, i have sles8 with samba 2.2, and whe i mount a windows ntfs share on my linux box i dont see all the files that the share has, because if i list the files using ftp or on the proper local machine and i count the files i have 3500, and when i list then on my linux box on the mounted smbfs i only see 2000, sometimes i get 0 files listed, i have tried mounting the share with samba 3.0 in a debian box with exactly the same result... , the thing is if i try moving a file that i cant see i can move it and use it with no probss... :¿. strange thing?? can someone help me out here? the windows share is a w2003. thnX!