4 samba shares on 1 pc. only 3 of them work

[DimmO]

***all of my samba mounts used to work***, now my music one has died in the arse.

 

I have the following mounts defined on my mdk machine (in fstab):

 

/mnt/windows/download

/mnt/windows/movies.1

/mnt/windows/movies.2

/mnt/windows/music

 

these point to

d:\download

d:\movies

e:\movies

e:\music

on my windows 2000 machine

 

 

when I try to access /mnt/windows/music, this shows up in /var/log/messages:

Nov 24 21:07:32 moneyshot kernel: smb_add_request: request [cb65eee0, mid=28830] timed out!

There are no obvious errors in any of the /var/log/samba/* files

 

# cd music

#ls

ls: .: Input/output error

 

I have no problems browsing and accessing files in the other shares.

help-a-noob. :)

cheers.

[DimmO]

update:

I seemed to have nailed it down a bit:

 

The problem occurs when the following happen:

 

1) the samba connection is "open"

(eg: I'm playing mp3s over the network)

and

2) the connection goes down (just now I accidentally pulled the cable out. Also, if I reboot the windows PC)

 

I can't get the connection to work again unless I reboot the mdk machine.

 

any ideas?

[Qchem]

Have you tried restarting samba after the share has disappeared? I'm not sure what the service name will be under mandrake (look in /etc/init.d/ for something like samba or smb), but in general:

 

service servicename restart

 

as root, may fix things. There may also be a way to get samba to rescan shares, try googling for it.