Samba mountpoint hangs after server crash

[Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com]

Hello,

We have some trouble with samba together with a flaky windows NT 4.0 
Server: Quite often the server crashes and can't be reached again until it 
is rebooted. We mount some smb shares from that server and when the server 
crashes, we can't access the shares until root unmounts and remounts these 
shares.

This is a bit annoying, since root is not always available and has better 
things to do then remounting smb shares ;) I know, the best thing would be 
to fix the server, but nobody maintains this old machine...

Does the bug that is mentioned in the manpage "Mounts  sometimes stop 
working. ..." strike here ? I don't think so, because the mountpoint 
doesn't stop just like that, but because the server dies.

Some additional data:
Distribution: Debian testing
Kernel: 2.6.17-2-686

dpkg -l smb\*
ii  smbclient                  3.0.23d-1                  a 
LanManager-like simple client for Unix
ii  smbfs                      3.0.23d-1                  mount and umount 
commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than 2.2.x)

log.smbmount shortly after the server failed:
[2006/12/09 06:26:33, 1] libsmb/cliconnect.c:cli_connect(1369)
  Error connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Keine Route zum Zielrechner)
[2006/12/09 06:26:33, 0] client/smbmount.c:do_connection(155)
  23909: Connection to server failed
[2006/12/09 06:27:03, 1] libsmb/cliconnect.c:cli_connect(1369)
  Error connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Keine Route zum Zielrechner)
[2006/12/09 06:27:03, 0] client/smbmount.c:do_connection(155)
  969: Connection to server failed

Best regards,

Markus Grunwald
Softwareentwicklung

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