System Hangs on SMB Shares

[Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems]

When I use mount.cifs I get the following error:

mount error 5 = Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Not very helpful. :-(

/POL

Dexter Ang wrote:

> Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun 
> Microsystems wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> My FC2 system allows me to mount SMB shares entered in /etc/fstab/ 
>> just fine. But whenever I try to access them in the Nautilus file 
>> manager, my entire file system hangs and becomes unreachable. I can 
>> still use apps such as terminal and Mozilla, but to get file 
>> management back I need to reboot my system.
>>
>> Is this a known problem?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> How are you mounting the shares? Via the command:
>
> mount //host/share /mnt/samba -o username=whatever
>
> I presume? If I understand correctly, smbfs doesn't work correctly in 
> the released kernel. I believe you should mount it with type cifs such 
> as:
>
> mount -t cifs //host/share /mnt/samba -o username=whatever
>
> You could also check out the mount.cifs command via "man mount.cifs"
>
> dex
>
>

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