Sometime ago, I wrote about a mounting issue I've been having with mounting windows shares. I reported it via bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160750) and watching this list hoping that someone else will report/come up with a solution. In a nutshell, I have entries in my /etc/fstab file as below: //192.168.1.100/f$ /mnt/f cifs user,credentials=/etc/cred 0 0 //192.168.1.100/m$ /mnt/m cifs user,credentials=/etc/cred 0 0 //192.168.1.100/c$ /mnt/c cifs user,credentials=/etc/cred 0 0 192.168.1.100 is my WinXP box and c$, m$, f$ are my administrative shares. I have used this configuration without any problems in FC3 for about 2 months. Then, I upgraded my system to FC4 and strange things started to happen. When I try to access these mount points, say ls -l /mnt/c, it would take about 15 mins. Once the content of any of these drives is displayed after that 15 mins, all is fine and I can access all mounted shares instantly. If I however, leave my pc on for say a few hours and come back; then the same story all over again. BTW, smbfs was OK too with FC3 but just a bit slower than cifs. In FC4, it does not matter if I specify cifs or smbfs, they are both sluggish and behave the same way. i was thinking that this was a side effect of FC3->FC4 upgrade but I had one of these infamous kernel-panic problems, and rebuild my system from scratch using FC4 DVD only to find that problem would not go away. Has not anyone had any issues with mounting windows shares on fc4? Does anyone have any suggestion on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks, Adil http://sc0ri0n.blogspot.com
