I've been using the latest cifs 1.8 client at http://linux-cifs.samba.org/ with Fedora 3 and RHE 4.
This client seems to have a lot of issues that I did not notice when using smbfs. It seems like when there is an issue with connectivity to a windows machine, and you try to access a cifs mount, the entire session locks up. I basically have to kill the session, log back on, and then there is no way to kill the process as it is showing a 'D' for 'waiting for I/O. There have been times on various linux servers where I had so many unkillable cifs processes that I then could not even do a reboot or shutdown of the system. I have had to physically hold the power down to halt the computer. My question is whether this in any way relates to Samba itself on the system. I see various revisions of the whole Samba suite, but I believe these revisions only handle improvements on the server-end. Anybody else using cifs for connectivity that has had these issues? Are there any ways around this or it is the product just unstable at this point? Thanks, Max -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
