samba - May 2003 - mount dies misteriously

Hi samba gurus,

A samba connection between a RedHat 9 and a win2000 is given, where
mount -a sometimes (sometimes - i couldn't notice any order in that)
dies completely.
If it is during the boot process, the whole boot process stops without
any further error message or anything. (you have to enter the
interactive startup, say no to the smbmount and say mount -a as root
from a console)

the specific line in /etc/fstab is:

//andrea/plazazaza	/plazazaza		smbfs	user,uid=500,username=samba,password=samba
0	0

share and directory names and chmod are correct, as it - suprisingly -
mounts the directory, the problem is that it doesn't give back the
command line (the suprising and misterious thing is that it sometimes
does), so i have to kill the smbmount process or close the console.

if it seems to work properly (it mounts the directory and gives the
command prompt back) and you say umount -a and mount -a again, it may
stop without any further reason (and any error message).

it is annoying and embarrassing at the same time. Where shall i look for
the solution?

it is a samba-2.2.7a-8.9.0 if it does matter at all

thanks a lot
zs

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Balla Zsolt wrote:
> If it is during the boot process, the whole boot process stops without
> any further error message or anything. (you have to enter the
> interactive startup, say no to the smbmount and say mount -a as root
> from a console)
I had some similar problems. My solution was not to mount this through the
fstab but to mount it later, wenn the machine is already up an
running.
> 
> the specific line in /etc/fstab is:
> 
> //andrea/plazazaza    /plazazaza              smbfs
> user,uid=500,username=samba,password=samba    0       0
I would suggest to add the options 'noauto'(prevents mounting due to the
fstab) and 'exec'(allows executing programs on the smb-share) to the
fstab
line. The later mount can be done as user if you just chmod +s
/usr/bin/smbmnt with the mount /plazazaza. This could also be done by a
script with only user rights.

This solved most of my problems, maybe its helpful for you as well.

Sascha