Re: KDE desktop

[Michael Slack <mslack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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