Errors with smbfs/smbmount

[Martin Munt]

On Wed, 24 May, Todd A. Green wrote:

	I've been working with smbfs/smbmount the last few weeks to allow my
	linux log processing server access to the logs on our NT servers.
The
	problem is that after a period of time all the smbfs mounts become
	invalid with either one of two errors.

Yes. I have exactly the same thing. 'Mount' shows them still mounted, 
but 'ls -l' on the mount point shows nothing there. This is driving me
crazy.

	When you do a 'df -k' to view
	the mounts you see the following:

	samba:~# df -k
	Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
	/dev/hda1              2071384    779284   1186876  40% /
	/dev/hda6             10752392     74876  10131308   1% /usr/local
	df: /servers/server1.mydomain.net: Broken pipe
	df: /servers/server2.mydomain.net: Broken pipe
	df: /servers/server2.mydomain.net: Broken pipe
	df: /servers/server2.mydomain.net: Broken pipe

	samba:~# df -k
	Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
	/dev/hda1              2071384    779284   1186876  40% /
	/dev/hda6             10752392     74876  10131308   1% /usr/local
	df: /servers/server1.mydomain.net: I/O Error
	df: /servers/server2.mydomain.net: I/O Error
	df: /servers/server2.mydomain.net: I/O Error
	df: /servers/server2.mydomain.net: I/O Error

	I have a script which checks these mounts once every thirty minutes
and
	if they have errors they are unmounted and re-mounted.

I have the same kludge! Fixes the symptom but not the cause.

	The script emails me everytime it has to remount so I have some
times as
	to when it is happening.

	2000/05/23:  01:30, 02:00, 04:00, 06:00, 08:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00,
	16:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 22:00
	2000/05/24:  00:00, 02:00, 02:30, 04:30, 06:30, 08:30

	Since the script only runs every half-hour I don't know exactly when
the
	mounts are going sour.

	I'm running samba-2.0.7,  on a Redhat 6.1 box with a 2.2.14 kernel.
	Here's the configure statement I used to build it ./configure
	--with-smbmount --with-syslog

	Note: there are NO entries in any of the syslog files with regard to
	samba.

	I dug into the archive and the last messages I found pertaining to

Are these Samba mailing list archives? If so please, someone send me a URL.

	smbmount were from November 1998.  They talked about the NT servers
	timing out 'idle' smb mounts.  I'm wondering if this is the case and
if
	so is there anything I can do about it.

	Only other thing of interest is that when the drives are mounted
	/sbin/mount.smbfs is left running in the background.  One for each
mount
	point.  Is this normal behavior?

It is normal on my system. For each remote mount, 'ps -ax' typically shows:

smbmount //<server>/<share> <password> -U <username>  -W <workgroup> \
-c mount ?/mnt/<mountpoint> -g <group> -f 775 -d 7

	If this is the wrong forum for this question please let me know
where to
	post the questions.

I'm new to this list (this problem is what prompted me to subscribe). I have

not received the normal trickle of messages that I would expect for a
mailing 
list. Instead, I received the message above in a digest of 15 or so. Is this

normal samba list behaviour, or have I done something stupid when 
subscribing? I would really appreciate an answer on this - even if nobody
knows the answer to the "disappearing NT shares" problem.

Thanks & Regards
Martin Munt

Draugen Project, SubSea Offshore Limited
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