mount.cifs problem

[Garry Williams]

On 11/17/06, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very odd - I resorted to re-booting the system to clear the mountpoint.
>
> Then I remounted the share which was fine and the files were visible.
> Then as root did
> umount /mnt/F
> This just seemed to hang.... so I escaped out - and checked the contents of
> /mnt/F which was empty as if it had indeed umounted... but running mount gave
>
> /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
> //rentedfs/phys on /mnt/F type cifs (rw,mand)
>
> So the system still sees the mount as present!
>
> If I do umount /mnt/F again I get
>
> This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.
> This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.
>
> If I run the mount command again then I see two mounts listed in the output
> of the mount command !
>
> If I try umount -f /mnt/F it just hangs again - the /var/log/messages output is
> Nov 17 13:45:00 gestalt kernel:  CIFS VFS: RFC1001 size 35 bigger than SMB for
> Mid=11
> Nov 17 13:45:25 gestalt kernel:  CIFS VFS: server not responding
> Nov 17 13:45:25 gestalt kernel:  CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 116 mid 11
>
> Wierd -

I have to agree.  Sorry, I have no clue at this point.

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