how to sync CIFS ?

Hewson · 11-04-2008, 07:33 PM

(on Cent0S5)

Hi,

I have a remote network file server mounted to a directory. The file server has had a new directory added. For what ever reason the new directory is not being listed. How can I resync the network device with my local machine?

I tried service netfs restart but got this:

Code:

# service netfs restart
Unmounting CIFS filesystems:  unmount error 16 = Device or resource busy
Refer to the umount.cifs(8) manual page (man 8 umount.cifs)
                                                           [FAILED]
Mounting CIFS filesystems:                                 [  OK  ]
Mounting other filesystems:                                [  OK  ]

Also how can I avoid this happening in the future? The interesting line out of my /etc/fstab:

Code:

//builder/releases      /releases               cifs    domain=mydomain,credentials=/etc/fstab.pw.builder

Thanks in advance,

Steve

hopbyhop · 11-05-2008, 04:16 AM

The new directory is listed if you manually reload the container dir contents or re-access it?
Try mount -o remount instead of service restart
and also umounting first and then

Code:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt --verbose -o ....

to see what happens