Re: KDE desktop

[Bert Obbink <bert.obbink@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That worked, I somehow never considered using umount perhaps it didn't show mounted.

btw what does FYI mean ?

Bert.



members-request@kalamazoolinux.org wrote:

> FYI, you can usually get rid of the I/O error by running "umount /mnt" (or
> whatever the mount point is) as root.
>
> Mike
>
> >   On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:00:13PM +0200, Bert Obbink wrote:
> >   > Thanks, I will start looking into NIS I think this is more promissing than
> >   > what I just tried...
> >   >
> >   > I did a  smbmount "//server/home" /mnt -U user
> >   > after a while the system returns an "Input/Output" error and the /mnt is
> >   > completely unreachable. Even a ls on /mnt returns an Input/Output error now.
> >   > ls / does not show mnt anymore, rm -rf /mnt returns the same error I/O error.
> >   > df -v returns no mounted /mnt.
> >   >
> >   > Ever seen this before?
> >
> >   I've had similar experiences with samba while trying to use it to mount
> >   network shares for backup purposes..from the input/output errors to horribly
> >   munged permissions and such..it's a case of using a square in a circle;
> >   while samba does many things admirably, unix-to-unix sharing isn't one
> >   of them (yet?)  I switched this procedure to strictly nfs a while ago and
> >   that resolved the issues.
> >
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > Bert.
> >   >
> >
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