Ok, I am a newbie but over the last couple days I have made a lot of progress with linux. I have a new problem however that has stopped me in my tracks.

I am using redhat 9.0
P III 600Mhz
Toshiba Portege

I downloaded and installed SAMBA from samba.org so I can connect to windows shares. Everything appears to have installed correctly, after reading the samba instructions I tried to mount my network share like this

mount -t smbfs -o username=David,password=password //10.80.1.100/general /mnt/network

It runs and doesn't return an error.
I know it is connecting to the network because if I enter an incorrect password I get "access denied"

When I go to view my /mnt/network directory with "ls" I get

"Stale NFS file handle"

Anyone got any idea?
Thanks
David

Dude, I am having exactly the same problem. Do me a favour - If you find out before me, tell me how to fix it and I'll do the same for you.

Have you viewed your mnt/ directory? does the shared folder either not appear or when you click on it it vanishes?

I have noticed in a root shell that the file is there, but in konqueror or whatever, it isn't.

Do you get the errors saying that the mnt/WHATEVER file doesn't exist when you try to access it, and then when you try to mount it, mount says it can't because it's already there?

peace

Well - I fixed mine. Windows was broadcasting a shared directory that didn't exist - a crash had wiped it out the night before.

Check the directory is being shared before you do anything else, and make sure it hasn't been deleted or renamed or something weird!


Good Luck

I have fixed my problem. I had a folder shared on my Windows box and it only had my domain username in the permissions and not the local server username account. Since my linux box smbclient hasn't been joined to the domain smbmount doesn't authenticate with the PDC, rather the local computer users.

Bobby

Just a random note, but I've found that it also gives this error if the user you are trying to mount the share with doesn't have permission to view the shared folder. So I guess this error doesn't mean anything specific, just "I cannae do it!". Could be a more friendly error though! :-)

Cheers,

Jamie.

Just a quick note in relation to Windows 2003 Servers.

You may receieve this error message if your server is "Digitally signing" communications.

To disable this, alter two policies, in the Default Domain Controller Security Settings. Under Local policies, Security Options.

Disable Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always)
Disable Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (if client agrees)

Remember to run gpupdate.exe when finishes or you'll have to wait for Windows to do it at the scheduled interval.

My understanding is that this is a generic system return code and you'll see this for any number of errors.

Hope this helps someone.

Stale NFS file handle? Unmount and remount the share usually works..

Worked for me. I got the Stale NFS error when restoring a VM from the Windows backup proxy to the ESX host.

Regards,

Jkelso