On Monday 02 August 2004 07:28, John Hewitt wrote: > What distro are you using? Samba version details? > > Hmm, I can see that it would indeed cause you a mess - especially with > the symlinking. Whilst I can't give you an answer to your question I > can ask for a few more details regarding the version numbers of your > linux machine. Hopefully some other samba god will be able to help > you. > > Anyhow all I can offer is to try and manually unmount the share when > your on the linux box and you know the windows box is down. > Sometimes if umount doesn't work, you can try: > umount -f
Hi, umount -f won't work. Nothing will work. All processes accessing the share (also umount) will hang in state D. Now D is uninterruptible sleep, and is just that: uninterruptible. They cannot even be interrupted with kill -9. Thus, I would say, it's a flaw in the smbfs kernel module, as it is regarded a kernel bug, if a process cannot be killed with kill -9. I'm not aware of any solution to that. Kind regards Alexej -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
