Paul, If you are mounting shares that are on a Windows machine onto the file system of your Linux system then you are probably using smbfs - a Linux kernel file system driver. smbfs is not Samba. smbmount is a front-end utility that belongs to smbfs but shares some code with Samba. No-one on the Samba Team maintains these tools, they are maintained by the smbfs maintainers.
Asking for help with smbfs on the Samba mailing list is a little like asking a Ford dealership to handle a warranty complaint for a GM automobile. smbfs is very old out-dated technology. cifsfs has replaced it in the Linux 2.6.x kernel. Suggest you look into cifsfs. Sorry, I do not wish to be rude, but you should check into cifsfs - it is more up to date compared with Samba-3.0.x. Cheers, John T. On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:55, Paul Farrow wrote: > Reposted due to no response ... > > > Please please can someone shed some light on this one. > > I have mounted some windows 2003 shares onto the my linux box, Supermicro > dual xeon running fedora core 2 samba 3.0.6 using smbmount and quite often > the shares will die or just hang when there is a lot of activity on them. > > Does anyone have any idea how to stop this happening? > > The errors that I get in smbmount.log is the following... > > tdb_lock failed on list 112 ltype=1 (bad file descriptor) > > > Looking on google only a few people have got this but no conclusive > resolution. > > I wondered if it meant that the file was in use exclusively from the > windows machine !!! > > Cheers > > Paul -- John H Terpstra, CTO PrimaStasys Inc. Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 OpenLDAP by Example, ISBN: 0131488732 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba