smbmount on NT4 shares disconnecting randomly

[Matt Doyle]

I found some more smb_* messages in the log:


Sep  7 17:15:17 muddy kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-32, setting 
invalid
Sep  7 17:15:17 muddy kernel: smb_retry: new pid=877, generation=6
Sep  7 17:15:18 muddy kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-32, setting 
invalid
Sep  7 17:15:18 muddy kernel: smb_retry: new pid=874, generation=6
Sep  7 17:15:18 muddy kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-32, setting 
invalid
Sep  7 17:15:19 muddy kernel: smb_retry: new pid=1130, generation=3
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-32, setting 
invalid
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy last message repeated 3 times
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_lookup: find 
members_bens/salesquestionnaire_sendmail.asp failed, error=-5
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy last message repeated 3 times
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_lookup: find 
members_bens/salesquestionnaire_sendmail.asp failed, error=-5
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy last message repeated 3 times
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_lookup: find 
members_bens/salesquestionnaire_sendmail.asp failed, error=-5
Sep  7 18:06:08 muddy kernel: smb_retry: caught signal
Sep  7 18:07:35 muddy kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
Sep  7 18:07:35 muddy last message repeated 3 times


Hope that helps!
Matt



>From: Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest.se>
>To: Matt Doyle <matt_the_bishop at hotmail.com>
>CC: samba at us4.samba.org
>Subject: Re: smbmount on NT4 shares disconnecting randomly
>Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:17:00 +0200 (CEST)
>
>On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Matt Doyle wrote:
>
> > I'm not that familiar with Linux I must admit, but I assume the messages
> > you're after are in /var/log/messages?  The corresponding message for 
>the
> > input/output error is:
> >
> > "smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3"
> >
> > I also found these other messages in the log:
> >
> > "smb_trans2_request: result=-32, setting invalid"
>
>Yes, that is what I was looking for ... sort of. No other smb_* messages ?
>
> > I actually found that doing a plain umount works fine!  Thanks for that 
>- I
> > no longer have to reboot each time. :)  It's just the smbumount that 
>fails
> > with the input/output error and corresponding "signal failed" message.
>
>smbumount does some tests before unmounting, I think one of those accesses
>the mountpoint which fails with an EIO.
>
>
> > I'd actually already setuid smbmount - should I be setuid'ing smbmnt
> > instead?
>
>That is how I understand it, see the manpage for smbmnt.
>
>
> > >A problem that 2.0.7 also has is that smbmount may terminate if the 
>server
> > >is rebooted. Also smbfs in most versions have problems with a process
> > >getting a signal while accessing smbfs.
> >
> >
> > So is this probably the reason for the disconnections?
>
>It's probably not uncommon, but you should get a "caught signal" message.
>If you don't get a "caught signal" then that is not your problem.
>
>/Urban
>
>

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