CIFS and Samba = POS

[KWhat]

It seems that samba and cifs are randomly unstable... here is the situation, for some computers this works fine, but sometimes samba likes to corrupt my file system =) Yes its real cute.

So here is what happens:

Try to mount a share using samba: mount -t cifs -o user=username //XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/shared /mnt/samba/test
CIFS returns: mount error 20 = Not a directory (Yes it is a folder.)

Try to mount via samba: mount -t samba -o user=username //XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/shared /mnt/samba/test
Samba Poops all over my file system: d????????? ? ? ? ? ? shared

umount -f /mnt/samba/test && tune2fs -C 60 /dev/sda3 seems to work well as a pooper scooper but its a but frustrating.

I noticed a similar issue when samba was not using the correct iso char set but this this particular share it does not matter what char set i use i get the same results.

Thanks

[darkphader]