I've got this problem as well, only it is happening with a share that still exists. As far as I can tell, it seems to be the case that our NT server is dropping the connection after some inactivity, and Samba can't re-establish for some reason...
Anyhow, for me, I just use umount with the "-l" option. After that, I'm able to re-mount the share and it works just fine (until it times out again...) If anyone knows a real fix for this, I'd love to hear it... -Jason On Sunday 28 July 2002 11:09 pm, Rob Gillen wrote: > I've seen a problem for many different versions (latest 8.2) of Mandrake > with Samba before, and I may have even inquired about it before. > Whether it is a problem with Samba I have no idea, but I suspect not. > I'm trying to get some info/advice about what might be potentially the > problem before going to Samba mailing lists to query them. > > Some of you might already be familiar with the strange way that Linux > will often disallow umount-ing or listing directory contents of a > mounted smb share, returning the error text, "Input/output error." I > believe this error happens when a smb share is mounted, then that remote > share is removed. This is a seriously annoying problem, because > restarting Samba does not solve the problem, nor does changing > runlevels. Which is why I think it may be a kernel-level problem. I > have tried changing the runlevel to [S]ingle level user, which is > running pretty much nothing save kernel processes and a simple shell. > At this level, a 'mount' command still shows the shares to be mounted, > and also at this level it is still impossible to umount them. The only > solution that I have found so far is rebooting, which I think is an > unacceptable way to handle such a problem. ========================= "You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say." -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
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