an update. it now seems that using mount -t smbfs -o username=XXXXX,password=XXXXXX //hyacinth/mp3s /pub/mp3 only works once as when i umount the share or try and mount any other drive from that pc it just hangs. i can mount most drives once but after that cannot mount them again until the machine is rebooted. any ideas, anyone?? ----- Original Message ----- From: n3r0@poisonreverse.ca To: samba@lists.samba.org Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:20 PM Subject: problem after upgrading redhat 9 so i just upgraded an ftp server to redhat 9 with several of my win2k drives mounted in fstab. all worked fine before but now when it comes on smb starting it just hangs. some directories i can mount via mount -t smbfs -o username=XXXXX,password=XXXXXX //hyacinth/mp3s /pub/mp3 but some it jsut hangs. i have taken the entries out of fstab that will not mount via command line but it still hangs. why should these directories not mount anyways? the only thing i can think of is that the directory has 37.7 gigs. is there a limit on how much space can be mounted? i have included my fstab below. the only way i can get the machine to boot is by unplugging the network cable, else i get: Jun 10 10:42:56 amnesiac mount: 602: session request to 192.168.1.201 failed (Called name not present) Jun 10 10:42:56 amnesiac mount: 602: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) a bunch of times in my boot.log and it jsut hangs as i said. someone said i should change the ip addresses in fstab to the hostname (hyacinth) and add a line to /etc/hosts defining hyacinth so i did this but it did not help. any help apreciated. i had other entries in there as well (ie the big drive is not in there right now). <fstab with user/pass = XXX to protect the innocent> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 \\hyacinth\mp3s /pub/mp3 smbfs username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0 \\hyacinth\archive /pub/archive smbfs username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0 \\hyacinth\archivegames /pub/archivegames smbfs username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0 \\hyacinth\familyguy /pub/familyguy smbfs username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0 \\hyacinth\upload /pub/upload smbfs username=xxx,password=xxx,rw,dmask=077 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0