[Voyage-linux] Samba on Voyage Linux

[Joe.Kelly]

A very temporary workaround is to execute "remountrw" before executing
smbmount. This is probably bad for the CF card though. Any suggestions would
be appreciated. Perhaps symlinking /etc/mtab~ to /proc/mounts~ would work?

Anyway, here's another more troubling issue. After I did my above workaround
to get smbmount to work, I could successfully do an "ls" on the mount point
(/rw/tmp/smb) to show the files in the share. That's good. Now to test
reliability, I UN-shared the remote Samba share and tried to "ls" the mount
point again. This time I got a "invalid slot" error. Note that when I try
this reliability test on a regular Debian-Sarge box (i.e. not a Soekris box
running Voyage Linux), I do NOT get an error when I run "ls"; instead it
just times out after a few seconds. 

Furthermore, when I RE-shared the share and tried "ls" on the Soekris box, I
still got an "invalid slot" error. In contrast, on my regular Debian-Sarge
box, "ls" correctly shows the files in the share after I RE-share the share.
In other words, the Debian-Sarge box recovers from a temporary disconnection
of the share after mounting it but the Voyage Linux Soekris box does not.
I've googled "invalid slot" to death and I can't find anything helpful. I
suspect that it might have something to do with the kernel configuration of
Voyage Linux versus the kernel configuration of "out-of-the-box"
Debian-Sarge Linux. Any suggestions????

Cheers,
Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe.Kelly 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:48 PM
> To: 'voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk'
> Subject: [Voyage-linux] Samba on Voyage Linux
> 
> 
> I followed the manual customization procedure in the wiki to 
> install the
> smbfs and smbclient packages into my Voyage Linux image. When 
> I run the
> smbclient  command on the Soekris box, it works fine. However, I have
> problems with the smbmount command. When I run smbmount on 
> the Soekris box
> to mount a samba share on a remote windows box, I get the 
> error "Can't get
> /etc/mtab~ lock filesmbmnt failed: 1" (notice the ~). I assume this is
> because the root filesystem is mounted read-only by Voyage 
> Linux. I did
> notice that /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts but there is no
> /etc/mtab~.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this? Has anyone tried mounting samba 
> shares in Voyage
> Linux? 
> 
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