One question/suggestion: Is samba running from inetd or as a standalone server? That's probably not directly applicable to your situation (now that I fully read your email...), but may not hurt.
My W2K memory is fuzzy, but I recall that W2K is setup to time out and essentially disconnect from the server after 30 min or so, then transparantly reconnect if you use the share again. I have a hunch that this is related to your problem. You might want to check the server setup to see if there's a switch to correct/change that. --Rich Robert Hawkey wrote: > > I know this probably isn't the best list for this question but... > > We've got several machines set up in our office running Debian, RedHat > and Slackware Linux that all mount a share on our Windows 2000 server. > If any of the machines don't use the share for longer than a half hour > or so Samba crashes and you can no longer access the share. If you do > an ls on the share it will say "ls: Input/Output error". > > When the crash occurs you cannot umount the mounted folder, all that > happens when you type "umount /sambashare" is umount runs, and quits > with no messages, but when you try to remount the share it tells you > that the share is already mounted. The only way to get the share back > is to reboot the machine. > > Does anyone know why this is happening? > > Here's the command we use to mount the share: > > mount -t smbfs -o > username=<user>,password=<password>,rw,fmask=0777,dmask=0777 > //192.168.0.2/<SHARE NAME> <folder on our machines> > > Thanks, > > Robert Hawkey > _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________