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Re: SMBCLIENT PROBLEM



On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:34:40PM +0100, Vicente Torres wrote:
> 
> I use smbmount-2.1.x to access Windows NT file systems
> from other computers in the net.
> Sometimes the connection gets lost and I get the following message when
> I
> try to list those directories:
> 
> bash-2.02$ ls /net/XXX
> ls: /net/XXX: Input/output error
> bash-2.02$
> 
> If I try to mount again the net directories, smbmount-2.1.x says:
> 
> Could not resolve mount point
> 
> and the only solution I know is to restart my potato. After restart
> the connections are available again.
> 
> How can I restore connections without restarting?
> 
As root you can
# umount /net/XXX
then smbmount will work fine for the next mount.

As someone else has noted, the potato versions work much
better (though I still get this problem occasionally).

Kevin

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