On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:15 am, Kirk Coombs wrote:

I have my computer connected to a Windows 2000 share via samba. I have problems, however, if that server is ever restarted. The mount point becomes inaccessable (i.e. 'ls' gives and error), and I cannot umount it ('server is busy' error). A umount -f does not work either.

The only option I have found is to restart, which I hate to do.

Any suggestions on how to avoid this, or at least how to get it re-mounted?

I am mounting the server via /etc/fstab, with the following line:

//xeon/c /xeon smbfs credentials=/etc/mypasswords,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

(BTW, what does the '0 0' at the end do? I have never understood those numbers)

Thanks,

Kirk

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I thought the proper place for this was in /etc/samba/smbfstab I think a simple "rcsmbfs restart" might work, but you probably better test it. Zeros are mount order (sequence). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen