[PLUG] Fubar'd SMB mount.

Dale Zeutenhorst dale at zeutenhorst.com
Wed Dec 29 15:54:10 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 28 December 2004 02:22 pm, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I've got a SMB mount that went south (well I'm sure it was a Windows 
> issue).  Now I've got this really strange directory entry for the mount 
> point and any listing of the directory the mount point was(is) in takes a 
> really lnog time.  lsof reports there is a problem with the smb file 
> system mount and takes a really long time.
> 
> I see no smbmount processes running.  Is there a method to rebuild/fix a 
> fubar'd SAMBA mount.
> 
> 
> Rod


Try umount on the directory from a root console - I get that some times when
I am connected to the sons XP machine and he turns it off. I normally use
Smb4k to mount the share, and umnount it from there, except when the
other system is off. 


Dale



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