Win95 share going in and out of df under smbfs?

[Urban Widmark]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.  Don't know what could be incorrectly updating
> /etc/mtab.

One of mount or smbmount(addmntent in glibc) is incorrectly updating
/etc/mtab for certain names.


> > Any funny kernel log messages?
> > 
> I do get this occasionally:
> 
> Sep  5 06:28:12 debserver kernel: smb_get_length: recv error = 5
> Sep  5 06:28:12 debserver kernel: smb_request: result -5, setting
> invalid
> Sep  5 06:28:13 debserver kernel: smb_retry: new pid=1942, generation=9
> Sep  5 06:28:13 debserver kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
> Sep  5 06:28:13 debserver kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3

"smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3" means that smbmount is gone and that
the mount will stop working. It will not start working again, unless
someone umounts and then mounts it (like a backup script might do).

A possible cause (in 2.0.7) would be that the remote server rebooted. But
there are probably lots of ways to kill smbmount.


Why or how you get the effect where it appears to be umounted and then
mounted again in df, I don't know.

/Urban