Re: CIFS mount errors

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:01:31 +1000, Robert S wrote:
> I have several mounted CIFS shares to a Win XP Pro server.  This
> usually functions well for a few days/hours then I get input/output
> errors.  When I unmount them and try to reconnect I get:
> 
> # mount -a -t cifs
> mount error 5 = Input/output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> mount error 5 = Input/output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> 
> 
> I get this in my syslog
> 
> Aug  7 11:39:38 debian kernel:  CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -5
> Aug  7 11:39:38 debian kernel:  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5
> Aug  7 11:39:38 debian kernel:  CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -5
> Aug  7 11:39:39 debian kernel:  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5
> 
> I hope somebody can help with this - its a very frustrating problem.
> I haven't found a fix anywhere on the net.

This is a stab in the dark: Did you already try to explicitly disable
the Linux extensions? Run

echo "0" > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

before you mount the share.

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