Re: [Bobs-devel] SMB mount timeouts

[Joe Z. <jz...@at...>]

D'Arcey Carroll wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've seen in other posts where the (un)mounting can hang and it is theorized
>to be "samba's problem." I am looking for ways to track this down, as this
>problem chronically affects me.
>
>I have run the same command that it runs and gotten the same results:
>
>     smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/mntpt -o
>username=bobs,password=clearTextPassword
>
>This hangs for some time, eventually timing out.
>
>when a slightly modified command is run:
>
>     smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/mntpt -o username=bobs
>
>the system will prompt for the password and procede normally. My theory is
>therefore that the cleartext storage of the password will hang on samba
>servers that expect the password to be encrypted. I was wondering if you
>could confirm this or shoot it down. I'm encouraged in this analysis by the
>plethora of "FIXME's" around all the user password references.
>
>Is there a workaround (such as wrapping a call to crypt() or something?)?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>DC
>  
>
D'Arcey,

I have the same problem. I tried several times manually mounting and 
unmounting with and without the 'password=xxx'. At first it seemed to 
work without the password, then it continued to hang either way. I 
thought my problem was the computer I'm connecting to is a slow 166mhz 
running Win95. I assumed it didn't like the constant mounting and 
unmounting and would get confused.

I just did a google search on 'smbmount hangs' and came up with this 
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/1998-June/016855.html.

Basically, it says to add '< /dev/null > /tmp/smbmount.out 2> 
/tmp/smbmount.err' to the end of the smbmount command to keep it from 
hanging when using autofs. I tried it from the command line and it 
seemed to keep it from hanging when mounting and unmounting over and 
over. Like this:

smbmount //servername/sharename /mnt/mntpt -o username=whomever,password=clearTextPassword < /dev/null > /tmp/smbmount.out 2> /tmp/smbmount.err

I wonder if you get the same results. Would you try it and let me know 
please?

Thanks,
Joe Zacky