On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:13:57AM -0400, Barry Winch wrote:
> Hi,
> I am was running fine Mandrake 7.0 kernel 2.2.14-15mdk on a i586. I am using
> SAMBA to provide access between Linux and a couple of windows machines. One
> of the windows machines (98SE), has a habit of committing suicide at regular
> intervals (Thanks Micro$oft). After I have resuscitated the windows machine,
> and try to access it through midnight commander, I get a largered banner
> that says :File PROXY exists but cannot be stat-ed: Input/output error.
> 
> If, from the command line, I cd PROXY, then do an ls, I get
> 
> smb_retry: signal failed, error -3
> smb_retry: signal failed, error -3
> ls:.:Input/output error

try unmounting, then remounting the remote share. This should flush the cache.


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