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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Hello samba list,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> I'm experiencing a strange issue with smbfs mounts. Please help me troubleshoot this as it is locking up some of our servers.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">I have the following mount in fstab:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">//servername/remote_folder /local_folder cifs username=<user here>,password=<pass here>uid=12427,gid=4400 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">The purpose is to mount a remote directory for a custom application. Smbfs mounts were chosen for a specific reason over NFS mountss.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">What's happening is, every so often due to unknown circumstances, this mount will become unavailable and will entirely lock-up the ethernet interface using it. For our clusters it's the public interface -- the private will still be available.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">After a lazy unmount of the smbfs mount, the interface is immediately available.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">How can I make this mount more friendly so that these lock ups can be prevented?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">I'm not sure if this dmesg is from the forementioned problem, but I'll provide it just in case:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 115 mid 15</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -11</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 115 mid 17</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -11</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Thanks ahead of time for your assistance!</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#808080" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">William J. Edsall</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080" FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
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