[Samba] smbmount to Win2k dying after kernel/samba upgrades

[samba at transparentmeat.net]

Just a followup... my bad on the WinXP scenario.  That locks up as well.

I obviously have done something wrong with my kernel 2.6.0 compile or
samba 3.0.1 compile for this to happen.




On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 samba at transparentmeat.net wrote:

> Really odd problem that I'm having, and I'm totally clueless as to whats
> causing it.
>
> Scenario:
> 2 mounts from a W2K machine to a Linux box.  The Win2k box gets powered
> down overnight.  Obviously during this, if i do a df it freezes because it
> cant reach the drives.  I used to be able to boot the machine back up in
> the morning and it would see the drives again.  Not anymore.  The same
> occurs even if I reboot the win2k box and it comes back in 2 minutes.  Im
> totally clueless.  I can umount then mount again and it'll work, but it
> wont fix itself after a reboot.
>
>
> Information which might be helpful:
>
> Environment:
> Slackware Linux on the -current tree (close to v9.1)
> Kernel brought to 2.6.0 from source
> Samba 3.0.1 from source (./configure --with-smbmount)
>
> Which look like this when correctly mounted:
> //blitzwing/c         39067648  29671424   9396224  76% /blitzwing/cdrive
> //blitzwing/jimothy   39067648  29671424   9396224  76% /blitzwing/write
>
> My lines in /etc/fstab (drives get mounted out of rc.local)
> //blitzwing/c   /blitzwing/cdrive       smbfs   ip=192.168.1.2,ro,username=linux,password=XXXXXX
> //blitzwing/jimothy     /blitzwing/write        smbfs   ip=192.168.1.2,rw,username=linux,password=XXXXXX
>
> Error lines from 'dmesg' on machine thats failing
> smb_add_request: request [c69f8ec0, mid=6] timed out!
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> smb_lookup: find //Documents and Settings failed, error=-512
> smb_add_request: request [c351be60, mid=13] timed out!
> smb_lookup: find //Documents and Settings failed, error=-5
> smb_add_request: request [c3929ec0, mid=13] timed out!
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> smb_add_request: request [c46f0ec0, mid=54] timed out!
> smb_add_request: request [c46f0ec0, mid=25] timed out!
> smb_add_request: request [c440eee0, mid=56] timed out!
>
>
> I upgraded to the new kernel and latest Samba at the same time, and I cant
> tell which thing is causing the issue (if its either at all)
>
> Does anyone have ANY clue what could be causing this?   Im
> wondering if theres something different in 2.6.0 that I failed to compile
> in, or if theres something I did wrong with the 3.0.1 compile.
>
> Also, I have a similar setup (version of slackware, kernel, and samba)
> running almost exactly the same; the only difference being im connecting
> to a Windows XP Pro machine instead of Win2K and it works perfectly.  I
> can reboot without issue, and it finds my drives/shares no problem.
>
> (output from dmesg on the box connecting to winxp:
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
> SMB connection re-established (-5)
>
>
>
> I can paste up anything else that might be needed to figure out whats
> going on.  Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks
>
>
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