I setup the mounts from the command line. I've done this for years with smbfs, and although there is always an issue when you try to access a mount to a windows machine that has gone stale, doesn't exist, etc, I've never had sessions lock up so severely that I had to physically power down the linux server as I have with cifs.
Other than this issue, cifs works great and has many improvements over smbfs. Max > How do you have the share setup on the Linux side? I had a problem when I > did the mount via SMBFS in my /etc/fstab. When I switched to CIFS instead > it > seemed to fix it. I don't have samba running on the server, the two are > not > maintained in parallel. I think the samba team has just been gracious > enough > to work on/maintain the CIFS after SMBFS wasn't being further developed. I > am using FC3 on my linux side and Win2k3 AS on the windows side. > > James > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Max > Kipness > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:13 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Cifs client > > I've been using the latest cifs 1.8 client at http://linux-cifs.samba.org/ > with Fedora 3 and RHE 4. > > This client seems to have a lot of issues that I did not notice when using > smbfs. It seems like when there is an issue with connectivity to a windows > machine, and you try to access a cifs mount, the entire session locks up. > I basically have to kill the session, log back on, and then there is no > way to kill the process as it is showing a 'D' for 'waiting for I/O. There > have been times on various linux servers where I had so many unkillable > cifs processes that I then could not even do a reboot or shutdown of the > system. I have had to physically hold the power down to halt the computer. > > My question is whether this in any way relates to Samba itself on the > system. I see various revisions of the whole Samba suite, but I believe > these revisions only handle improvements on the server-end. > > Anybody else using cifs for connectivity that has had these issues? Are > there any ways around this or it is the product just unstable at this > point? > > Thanks, > Max > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba