I used to mount following share using samba client on RHEL 3.0 without any problems. Then I installed ES4.0 and I started seeing problems with these samba shares. I have following line in fstab to mount the share : //bizgroup/wli1 /wli1 smbfs uid=501,gid=501,credentials=/etc/samba/.smbpassword 0 0
and /etc/samba/.smbpassword contains following username=xxxxxxx password=xxxxxxx workgroup=xxxx and when I mount one of these file systems, I see following lines in messages file :- May 4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_add_request: request [f69b9080, mid=0] timed out! May 4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_delete_inode: could not close inode 2 May 4 10:34:20 beatest4 mount.smbfs[2133]: [2006/05/04 10:34:20, 0] client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(410) May 4 10:34:20 beatest4 mount.smbfs[2133]: mount.smbfs: entering daemon mode for service \\bizgroup\wli1, pid=2133 May 4 10:34:20 beatest4 kernel: smb_retry: no connection process and after that it mounts the file system. Once I start my application processes, I see more of these errors. It gives errors and works intermittently. I checked online forums and found that I should use cifs instead of smbfs. When I use cifs to mount a share, it is mounted without any error. But when I try to run 'ls' command it gives me "Input/output error". [root at beatest4 ~]# mount -t cifs //bizprod/wli1 /wli1 -o ip=10.110.1.80,user=kumara4,password=xxx,domain=twpn,uid=501,gid=501 [root at beatest4 ~]# ls -l /wli1 ls: reading directory /wli1: Input/output error total 0 If I try to run [root at beatest4 ~]# cd /wli1/wlitest2 [root at beatest4 wlitest2]# pwd /wli1/wlitest2 It works fine. But if you do ls again [root at beatest4 wlitest2]# ls wlitest2 It gives you the current directory name. I even tried to copy files on this share. No errors. But again there is no way to list them. If you know the file name you can even cat a file. Samba rpm installed samba-3.0.22-1 cifs.ko version 1.34 mount.cifs version 1.8 Please help. Thanks, Alok Kumar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba