samba - Jul 2002 - Smbmount (2.2.3a) and windows

Hi All,

	We changed out our main web server this morning in favor of linux/apache,
and everything was working well, except that we make smbmounts to the old
web server (it's xxx.xxx.xxx.51 now), the apache web server is
xxx.xxx.xxx.2,
and when xxx.xxx.xxx.51 died, all the machines communicating with it (via
smbmount) stopped responding EXCEPT for the apache web server, which was
issuing retries.

	The Win2K machine (xxx.xxx.xxx.51) had two IP addresses assigned to it
initiall (.51 and .2), and we removed .2 this morning, w/OUT restarting the 
win2k)
machine.  What I would like to know is what allowed the apache machine to 
continue
retrying the connection, but the other machines (running a java application 
updating
files on .51) to stop working (df -h just hung the terminal session), 
etc.  There was
NO way to regain control of the boxes at all?

	Anyone have any ideas?

-Bill

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Bill Parker wrote:
> 	The Win2K machine (xxx.xxx.xxx.51) had two IP addresses assigned to it
> initiall (.51 and .2), and we removed .2 this morning, w/OUT restarting the
> win2k)
> machine.  What I would like to know is what allowed the apache machine to 
> continue
> retrying the connection, but the other machines (running a java application
> updating
> files on .51) to stop working (df -h just hung the terminal session), 
> etc.  There was
> NO way to regain control of the boxes at all?
> 
> 	Anyone have any ideas?
Different kernel and/or samba versions?

/Urban