samba - Jun 2000 - Smbmnt Problems

Hi ,
     Iam experiencing problems with samba mount of a NT system.Iam using
samba2.0.5a.I have mounted a NT 4.0 Sp 5 shared folder on a Red Hat linux
6.1 machine.Iam mounting using the "mount -t smb" command  the NT
shared
folders.Iam able to mount and work in a default way.But here is some of the
problems i face in it.
1.Sometimes the smb mount gets dropped and i have to remount the shared
drive again in Linux .
2.Iam not able to give the user rights to write on the shared drive, because
it lets only the root do it.
3.This is the weirdest problem , i have seen,The files are stored in the
mounted directory(shared folder in an NT server),when i keep on working
suddenly all the files are not visible.When i type "ls -al" it shows
no
files, but i can do cat "filename" and the file shows up.I know the
files
exist, but don't know why it is not appearing,Sometimes when i create a new
file in that directory the other files appear, but this is not the case
always.The work is java based, but i don't know whether that causes any
problems.

Appreciate your inputs or any pointers or link to solve these problem.

Thanks
Karthik

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Karthikeyan.K.V wrote:
> 1.Sometimes the smb mount gets dropped and i have to remount the shared
> drive again in Linux .
2.0.5a has known problems with this. And not even 2.0.7 gets it completely
right, this patch on top of 2.0.7 tries to fix one problem:

http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/samba-2.0.7-smbmount-connection.patch

(but 2.0.7 is better than 2.0.5a even without that).
> 2.Iam not able to give the user rights to write on the shared drive,
because
> it lets only the root do it.
smbmount in 2.0.5a doesn't handle this. It's missing a few parameters
for
uid and gid.
> 3.This is the weirdest problem , i have seen,The files are stored in the
> mounted directory(shared folder in an NT server),when i keep on working
> suddenly all the files are not visible.When i type "ls -al" it
shows no
> files, but i can do cat "filename" and the file shows up.I know
the files
You should have an error message from smbfs in the kernel log (dmesg).
RH6.1 = linux 2.2.12 (?), unless you have upgraded it.

> Appreciate your inputs or any pointers or link to solve these problem.
Upgrade your kernel to 2.2.16, it should solve 3.

Upgrade samba to 2.0.7 it should solve 2 and make 1 happen less often. If
you decide to try my smbmount patch please let me know if it works for
you.

Note that smbmount has a different syntax in 2.0.7 vs 2.0.5 (but the good
news is that you don't need strange scripts to translate parameters).

/Urban