Horrible smbmount problem
Stephen L Arnold
arnold.steve at ensco.com
Tue Jul 20 20:18:33 GMT 1999
When the world was young, Jonathan Kelly <j.kelly at julien.ca> carved
some runes like this:
> I have a problem with smbmount between two Linux (both: RH 6.0,
> kernel 2.2.9, samba 2.0.4c) boxes. When I use smbmount, the
> share loads and I can read files just fine, but when I copy ("cp
> file") to the share, the first 512 bytes of the file are copied
> and then the copy just freezes there. Trying several times to
> kill -9 the process didn't work. I had to reboot the server. Now
> I tried both the smbmount included in samba 2.0.5-pre3 and in
> smbfs-2.0.4b-19990519.i386.rpm on the samba ftp site. Both had
> the same effect.
The only time I've seen a hard lockup like this (with linux, samba,
netware, windoze, whatever) was due to a bad NIC. Oh, it looked
like it worked, most of the time (with a DOS/Win Netware Client
setup), but with linux running the ncpfs client I could make it
barf repeatedly just by copying a file larger than 16 megs. When I
replaced the NIC with an SMC 8*13 card, the problems disappeared.
What happens when you move some data using ftp, nfs, etc? If it's
not bad hardware, then something is hosed in your samba/smbfs setup.
I haven't used RH6 or samba 2.x yet, but I've seen a few glitches
mentioned on the list (eg, the 64-bit file locking glitch on linux-
intel). Have you tried samba 1.9.18?
Sorry I couldn't help more, Steve
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