Stale NFS file handle on smbfs share

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I have a smb file share (fat32 file type), it mounts on startup with no error message. But if I ls while in my home directory (the directory which this file share is mounted), I don't see it. If I ch into that mounted file share, then do an ls and I get:

StriderA · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Balad, Iraq

I have the same problem. I mount a windows 2003 file share on the network and I get Stale NFS file handle when I list the directory. Does the same thing with any share on the network. Looking on the web, I see lots of other people having the same problems yet no solutions. Any guess?

I know this is from getting the -ESTALE error, but where should I look to troubleshoot this. I know the share is active and accessable by other computers. And it happens right after mounting, so it couldn't have gone stale that fast. Thanks.

As a side-note. It works fine if I use smbclient, but I can't mount the share with mount -t smbfs.
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Strowi · l33t Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 656 Location: Bonn

hi,

quicktip:
i fixed this in my network, by adding 'users' to the fstab entry, no more stale errors since
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Rebuke · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

I am also getting this error, I'm currently running a 2.4.26-r9 kernel, is there anything that I might not have compiled in that could be causing this?

I've got the samba 3.0.9 on there, the machine is happily joined to an AD domain. I'm trying to mount the share with the following command:

mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=****** //server/share /mnt/smb/backup_mount

It mounts fine, but then when I change to the directory I get the Stale NFS file handle error when trying to do anything in there. It unmounts fine too.

Anybody got any ideas?

Rebuke · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

Just as an update, I've just tried using 2.4.28-r5 and that hasn't made any difference.

All my other boxes on this network are using 2.6 kernels and work fine mounting samba shares, I can't use 2.6 on this box though as there is a kernel module I need to use to get the IDE raid card in it working which I couldn't get to run in 2.6. I can't think what it is to do with the 2.4 kernel that is preventing it, could CIFS have anything to do with it?

(The IDE raid card wasn't my choice, especially given as it is essentialy software RAID anyway...)