samba - Aug 2000 - smbmount shares not lasting

I've got a machine running RedHat Linux 6.2 on a P-II400 with 256MB of ram.
I'm mounting shares in the manner 'mount -t smbfs -o uid=user,gid=group
//server/share /mount/point'.  The server is a genuine NT 4 server, with SP5
and a couple of hotfixes.  I mounted a couple of shares yesterday, and
overnight the stopped working.  When accessing the share, I get an error
message that says "ls: /mnt/gleblanc: Input/output error".  I
don't see
anything in the logs as to why this is happening.  Got any ideas?  Thanks,
	Greg

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I've got a machine running RedHat Linux 6.2 on a P-II400 with 256MB of
ram.
> I'm mounting shares in the manner 'mount -t smbfs -o
uid=user,gid=group
> //server/share /mount/point'.  The server is a genuine NT 4 server,
with SP5
> and a couple of hotfixes.  I mounted a couple of shares yesterday, and
> overnight the stopped working.  When accessing the share, I get an error
> message that says "ls: /mnt/gleblanc: Input/output error".  I
don't see
> anything in the logs as to why this is happening.  Got any ideas?  Thanks,
samba version? 2.0.7 should have the best smbmount, if you are using
anything != 2.0.7 that is the most likely explanation. Upgrade to 2.0.7.


If the server you are connected to goes down and someone tries to access
the smbfs mount while it is down, smbmount will terminate and the mount
will stop working. You may try this patch for that:
    http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/smbmount-2.0.7-fixes.patch

It also tries to fix the logging so that smbmount should log what it does
(allow debug messages no matter how it is started). If you are using a
default config you should get a log.smbmount where your samba logfiles
live. If upgrading & patching doesn't work that log could be helpful in
finding out what happens.


/Urban

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Urban Widmark [mailto:urban@svenskatest.se]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 12:43 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Re: smbmount shares not lasting
> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > I've got a machine running RedHat Linux 6.2 on a P-II400 
> with 256MB of ram.
> > I'm mounting shares in the manner 'mount -t smbfs -o 
> uid=user,gid=group
> > //server/share /mount/point'.  The server is a genuine NT 4 
> server, with SP5
> > and a couple of hotfixes.  I mounted a couple of shares 
> yesterday, and
> > overnight the stopped working.  When accessing the share, I 
> get an error
> > message that says "ls: /mnt/gleblanc: Input/output error".  
> I don't see
> > anything in the logs as to why this is happening.  Got any 
> ideas?  Thanks,
> 
> samba version? 2.0.7 should have the best smbmount, if you are using
> anything != 2.0.7 that is the most likely explanation. 
> Upgrade to 2.0.7.
Got 2.0.7, that broke other things (like the link to mount.smbfs), but it's
mostly working.  I actually upgraded to 2.0.7 in hopes of fixing a few
things.
> If the server you are connected to goes down and someone 
> tries to access
> the smbfs mount while it is down, smbmount will terminate and 
> the mount
> will stop working. You may try this patch for that:
>     http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/smbmount-2.0.7-fixes.patch
This server has been up since 7/15, I got disconnected over the weekend.
> It also tries to fix the logging so that smbmount should log 
> what it does
> (allow debug messages no matter how it is started). If you are using a
> default config you should get a log.smbmount where your samba logfiles
> live. If upgrading & patching doesn't work that log could be 
> helpful in
> finding out what happens.
Hmm, I'll try that patch, and see what it does.  Thanks,
	Greg