On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:02, Steve Brown wrote: > I have been mounting a shared Windows (2000 Professional) drive on my > desktop computer onto my notebook computer running Fedora Core as > follows: > > mount -t smbfs //89.150.0.197/C ny > > This is pretty straightforward. The shared drive named C is mounted > to a directory named 'ny'. After entering this command, I enter my > password at the prompt. This worked great for a long time, but > suddenly, I've been having problems. The first thing I usually do > after mounting the drive is enter 'ls ny' to verify that the drive is > mounted properly. But lately, when I do this, nothing happens. I > leave it sitting a while, but still nothing happens. If I close the > terminal window, open a new window and try to unmount 'ny', I get a > message telling me that the device is busy. Actually, this message > appears twice. If I close the terminal window and mount a drive on a > different computer to a directory named 'nj', it works fine. I > unmount it, then try to mount the first computer to 'nj' but it still > doesn't work. > > Something must be wrong with the first computer, but what? When I use > that computer directly, however, there seems to be nothing wrong with > it. It seems like something needs to be reset, but what? > > Any assistance is appreciated. Not much help, but looks a lot like http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123895 Phil
