FC 2 and smb mounts

[Paul R. Ganci]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>>Paul R. Ganci wrote:
>>
>>>Alejandro Flores wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm having problems when mounting an smb share. The command goes well
>>>>(mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=passofme,uid=myuid,gid=mygid
>>>>//server/myhome /home/user/myhome) but when I try to list the contents
>>>>of the directory it hangs up. I looked in /var/log/messages and I got
>>>>this
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I just had the same thing occur:
>>>
>>>May 22 08:57:11 mcduff kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer 
>>>dereference at virtual address 00000000
>>><snip>
>>>      
>>>
>>This problem disappeared after I did a reboot when attempting to fix 
>>some unrelated issue. I have no idea why, but I am not going to look a 
>>gift horse in the mouth.
>>    
>>
>Same problem here.  Setup an smb mount point.  At first it appeared to
>work as expected.  I had full access to the share.  Then it stopped
>working.  Not sure what changed.  Have rebooted a few times but no
>change in the problem.  The mount appears to execute correctly but when
>I try to ls the directory it hangs.  At that point it is impossible to
>kill the ls process or umount the share.
>
Well I thought this problem went away, but after running the system over 
the weekend I found that this problem is intermittent. Sometimes the 
mount works maybe for several hours and then  wham ...  Other times the 
problem occurs immediately after doing the mount. I found that only a 
reboot fixes the problem. Monday I downloaded samba-3.0.4-2 from 
samba.org and installed it and so far have not experienced this problem. 
I have been connected to the samba share for over 24 hours now with no 
ill effects. This is a first since I upgraded from FC1 to FC2. Hopefully 
I haven't spoken too soon as I did last time I thought the problem went 
away.

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Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)