I had a problem with smbmount of Win shares that had more than 400-500 files: ls and mc listed only the first 400-500 file names as if the others didn't exist. My IBM Suse SLES8 support said its due to a known bug in SMB on the Win-side, not a Linux bug. Suggested I use cifs (common internet file system) which is replacing smb. Cifs is already built into winxp and uses same ports as smb. Cifs solved my problem, might solve yours.
Instead of smbmount's I do mount.cifs mount.cifs command is the samba mount utility for the cifs filesystem, the replacement for smbfs. SLES8 kernel supports cifs but doesn't have the mount.cifs command yet. You don't need to run samba to use mount.cifs. On my SLES8, doing lsmod listed cifs as a loaded kernel module. If you're interested in trying it: Download the c source program file, mount.cifs.c, from url http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html the link called: "Source for cifs mount utility on sambaweb" Download the man page file, mount.cifs.8, from same url, the link called: "man page for mount utility" Compile the c program with command: make mount.cifs creating executable binary: mount.cifs Copy executable mount.cifs to /usr/local/sbin/ And copy man page to /usr/local/man/man8/ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Istvan Nemeth Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: smbmount question Hi! smbmount works strange for me: when I mount a winxp share and walk into a "folder" wich contains 484 files, and I re-read it in mc some files disappear. Noone is writing in this folder. I want to "tar" some files, but: "tar: /mnt/xx/data1.txt: file changed as we read it" ...and when I repeat the tar command I get this message for the same or another files... the created .tar file is always different from the previous ones: contains different number of files. ?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
