[Voyage-linux] Samba on Voyage Linux

[Punky Tse]

Joe.Kelly wrote:
> 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?
>   
Probably you should create symlink /etc/mtab~ to /rw/etc/mtab~ and touch 
the file in /ro/etc/mtab~ 
Anyway, you should put your mount command in fstab.  May fix in next 
release.

> 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. 
>   
Compare the module lists (lsmod) in voyage and sarge box.  Find out 
words like smb and cifs. 
Moreover, compare the smbclient version and your mount command as well.  
I would like to know if it is problem in smbfs or cifs kernel module. 

> 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
>
>   
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