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Re: samba / smbmount problems



Mathew Johnston wrote:
> 
> I have a mixed windows/linux network, and am looking to do file sharing
> over my LAN.  Samba seems pretty good, except that mounted smb shares
> (in linux) sometimes lose connectivity.  It really liked to do it when
> xmms crashed as I tried to add a directory to my playlist that was
> inside an smb share.  If I tried to get a directory listing or change to
> the smb moutned directory, it would say input/output error.  Has anyone
> seen this sort of problem before? I'd like to use samba, as I dont think
> that nfs is really very well supported in windows.  Ideas? :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mathew Johnston
> 

When I was getting those errors, it turned out to be a bad (kinked)
network cable on my linux box.  HTH
-- 
Morgan

He who sacrifices functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves
neither.



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