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 PRÜFTECHNIK Condition Monitoring GmbH Oskar-Messter-Straße 19-21 85737 Ismaning www.pruftechnik.com Tel: +49 (0)89 99616177 Fax: +49 (0)89 99616200
