Problem with mounted SMB drive

[Steve Brown]

Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:02, Steve Brown wrote:
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>>I have been mounting a shared Windows (2000 Professional) drive on my
>>desktop computer onto my notebook computer running Fedora Core as
>>follows:
>>
>> mount -t smbfs //89.150.0.197/C ny
>>
>>This is pretty straightforward.  The shared drive named C is mounted
>>to a directory named 'ny'.  After entering this command, I enter my
>>password at the prompt.  This worked great for a long time, but
>>suddenly, I've been having problems.  The first thing I usually do
>>after mounting the drive is enter 'ls ny' to verify that the drive is
>>mounted properly.  But lately, when I do this, nothing happens.  I
>>leave it sitting a while, but still nothing happens.  If I close the
>>terminal window, open a new window and try to unmount 'ny', I get a
>>message telling me that the device is busy.  Actually, this message
>>appears twice.  If I close the terminal window and mount a drive on a
>>different computer to a directory named 'nj', it works fine.  I
>>unmount it, then try to mount the first computer to 'nj' but it still
>>doesn't work.
>>
>>Something must be wrong with the first computer, but what?  When I use
>>that computer directly, however, there seems to be nothing wrong with
>>it.  It seems like something needs to be reset, but what?
>>
>>Any assistance is appreciated.
>>    
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>Not much help, but looks a lot like
>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123895
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>Phil
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Thank.  Through trial and error, it's working, for now.  I attached some 
comments to bug 123895.

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Steven J. Brown
Value Line, Inc.
Business A*nalyst / Programmer
212-907-1650 (NY)
201-842-8019 (NJ)
sbrown at valueline.com
ny:win2000:mozilla




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