System Hangs on SMB Shares

[Dexter Ang]

Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun 
Microsystems wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> My FC2 system allows me to mount SMB shares entered in /etc/fstab/ just 
> fine. But whenever I try to access them in the Nautilus file manager, my 
> entire file system hangs and becomes unreachable. I can still use apps 
> such as terminal and Mozilla, but to get file management back I need to 
> reboot my system.
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> Regards,
> 

How are you mounting the shares? Via the command:

mount //host/share /mnt/samba -o username=whatever

I presume? If I understand correctly, smbfs doesn't work correctly in 
the released kernel. I believe you should mount it with type cifs such as:

mount -t cifs //host/share /mnt/samba -o username=whatever

You could also check out the mount.cifs command via "man mount.cifs"

dex