samba - May 2006 - Errors accessing smbfs share after upgrade to redhat ES4.0

I used to mount following share using samba client on
RHEL 3.0 without any problems. Then I installed ES4.0
and I started seeing problems with these samba shares.
I have following line in fstab to mount the share : 
 
//bizgroup/wli1   /wli1   smbfs  
uid=501,gid=501,credentials=/etc/samba/.smbpassword   
 0 0 

and /etc/samba/.smbpassword   contains following 
   
username=xxxxxxx 
password=xxxxxxx 
workgroup=xxxx 
 
and when I mount one of these file systems, I see
following lines in messages file :- 
 
May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_add_request:
request [f69b9080, mid=0] timed out! 
May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_delete_inode:
could not close inode 2 
May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 mount.smbfs[2133]:
[2006/05/04 10:34:20, 0]
client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(410) 
May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 mount.smbfs[2133]:  
mount.smbfs: entering daemon mode for service
\\bizgroup\wli1, pid=2133 
May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_retry: no
connection process 
 
and after that it mounts the file system. Once I start
my application processes, I see more of these errors.
It gives errors and works intermittently. 

I checked online forums and found that I should use
cifs instead of smbfs. When I use cifs to mount a
share, it is mounted without any error. But when I try
to run 'ls' command it gives me "Input/output error".

[root at beatest4 ~]# mount -t cifs //bizprod/wli1
/wli1 -o
ip=10.110.1.80,user=kumara4,password=xxx,domain=twpn,uid=501,gid=501
[root at beatest4 ~]# ls -l /wli1
ls: reading directory /wli1: Input/output error
total 0

If I try to run
[root at beatest4 ~]# cd /wli1/wlitest2
[root at beatest4 wlitest2]# pwd
/wli1/wlitest2

It works fine. But if you do ls again
[root at beatest4 wlitest2]# ls
wlitest2

It gives you the current directory name.

I even tried to copy files on this share. No errors.
But again there is no way to list them. If you know
the file name you can even cat a file.

Samba rpm installed

samba-3.0.22-1
cifs.ko version 1.34
mount.cifs version 1.8

Please help.

Thanks,

Alok Kumar


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> I used to mount following share using samba client on
> RHEL 3.0 without any problems. Then I installed ES4.0
> and I started seeing problems with these samba shares.
> I have following line in fstab to mount the share :
Instead of using smfs, try using cifs, as smbfs is somewhat deprecated
in newer 2.6 kernels. In my case, I tried using smfs with RHEL-ES 4.0
and had no luck. However, cifs works flawlessly.

Thanks Felipe for your prompt reply. If you see second
part of my question, I have tried to use cifs instead.
mount command works without errors. But, when I try to
 'ls' to list files in the cifs file system, I get 
input/output errors. But I can 'cd' to that directory
and if I know the file names, I can 'cat/vi' them. I
have provided more details in my original question.

Thanks,
 
Alok
  
 
> --- Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > I used to mount following share using samba
> client
> > on
> > > RHEL 3.0 without any problems. Then I installed
> > ES4.0
> > > and I started seeing problems with these samba
> > shares.
> > > I have following line in fstab to mount the
> share
> > :
> > 
> > Instead of using smfs, try using cifs, as smbfs is
> > somewhat deprecated
> > in newer 2.6 kernels. In my case, I tried using
> smfs
> > with RHEL-ES 4.0
> > and had no luck. However, cifs works flawlessly.
> > 
> 
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alok kumar wrote:
> I used to mount following share using samba client on
> RHEL 3.0 without any problems. Then I installed ES4.0
> and I started seeing problems with these samba shares.
> I have following line in fstab to mount the share : 
>  
> //bizgroup/wli1   /wli1   smbfs  
> uid=501,gid=501,credentials=/etc/samba/.smbpassword   
>  0 0 
> 
> and /etc/samba/.smbpassword   contains following 
>    
> username=xxxxxxx 
> password=xxxxxxx 
> workgroup=xxxx 
>  
> and when I mount one of these file systems, I see
> following lines in messages file :- 
>  
> May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_add_request:
> request [f69b9080, mid=0] timed out! 
> May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_delete_inode:
> could not close inode 2 
> May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 mount.smbfs[2133]:
> [2006/05/04 10:34:20, 0]
> client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(410) 
> May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 mount.smbfs[2133]:  
> mount.smbfs: entering daemon mode for service
> \\bizgroup\wli1, pid=2133 
> May  4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_retry: no
> connection process 
>  
> and after that it mounts the file system. Once I start
> my application processes, I see more of these errors.
> It gives errors and works intermittently. 
> 
> I checked online forums and found that I should use
> cifs instead of smbfs. When I use cifs to mount a
> share, it is mounted without any error. But when I try
> to run 'ls' command it gives me "Input/output error".
> 
> [root at beatest4 ~]# mount -t cifs //bizprod/wli1
> /wli1 -o
> ip=10.110.1.80,user=kumara4,password=xxx,domain=twpn,uid=501,gid=501
> [root at beatest4 ~]# ls -l /wli1
> ls: reading directory /wli1: Input/output error
> total 0
> 
> If I try to run
> [root at beatest4 ~]# cd /wli1/wlitest2
> [root at beatest4 wlitest2]# pwd
> /wli1/wlitest2
> 
> It works fine. But if you do ls again
> [root at beatest4 wlitest2]# ls
> wlitest2
> 
> It gives you the current directory name.
> 
> I even tried to copy files on this share. No errors.
> But again there is no way to list them. If you know
> the file name you can even cat a file.
> 
> Samba rpm installed
> 
> samba-3.0.22-1
> cifs.ko version 1.34
> mount.cifs version 1.8
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alok Kumar
> 
> 
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