System Hangs on SMB Shares

Dexter Ang thepoch at mydestiny.net
Tue Jun 1 12:56:48 UTC 2004


Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun 
Microsystems wrote:
> When I use mount.cifs I get the following error:
> 
> mount error 5 = Input/output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

What was the exact command you executed?

Will have to look into this myself as I've never experienced this error. 
Maybe try to google for this error as well and what causes it.

> 
> Not very helpful. :-(

man pages are usually very technical. You should see the man for the 
date command. And if it was me that you were referring to as not very 
helpful, sorry =) I try to be.

dex

> 
> /POL
> 
> Dexter Ang wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
>>
> 





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