[Samba] Unmountable Linux Samba mounts

[Urban Widmark]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Rob Gillen wrote:

> Some of you might be familiar with the strange way that Linux will
> sometimes 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.  I am

Please try this patch and let me know if it improves:
    http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/smbfs-2.4.19-pre9-poll.patch

Should be ok vs 2.4.19, you need to run make config and enable the "poll" 
option.

/Urban