[TriLUG] Samba question

[Jason Tower]

i recently had a very similar situation at a client site, i was trying 
to mount a share from a NT box on their linux server.  *sometimes* the 
mount command would hang, even though the mount operation worked.  i 
don't recall that i ever found the root cause of the problem, but you 
might try:

run the mount command from rc.local and append a & to background the 
process, so if it hangs after mounting it won't affect anything.

try automount and see if that works more reliably.

use smbmount instead of mount + fstab, it's basically the same thing but 
worth trying.

backtrack to an older version of samba, or grab the latest and greatest 
from samba.org.

good luck roy!

jason

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:24, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Okey. I'm pulling out my hair. I have an RHL 9 box that is running
> samba 2.2.7a (updated via RHN). I have 4 entries in my fstab like
> this:
>
> /dev/device	/mount/point	smbfs
> credentials=/path/to/credsfile,gid=username,fmask=775,dmask=775 0 0
>
> My problem is I have to remark these out to get the machine to boot,
> it just hangs at "Starting SMB Services". Once I've done this, I can
> remove the remarks, and sudo mount -a and it will mount them but
> never come back to a prompt.
>
> Any ideas of where it might be hanging? The shares mount and are
> workable, but it worked fine under 7.3 and 8.0 but in 9 it's
> hurting...