Try umount the partition (even if the mount appears to have failed) prior to trying smbmount again. I get the error you mention if I try smbmount and have a problem in password authentication. umount then smbmount seems work for me.
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: > > I use smbmount-2.1.x to access Windows NT file systems > from other computers in the net. > Sometimes the connection gets lost and I get the following message when > I > try to list those directories: > > bash-2.02$ ls /net/XXX > ls: /net/XXX: Input/output error > bash-2.02$ > > If I try to mount again the net directories, smbmount-2.1.x says: > > Could not resolve mount point > > and the only solution I know is to restart my potato. After restart > the connections are available again. > > How can I restore connections without restarting? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- tom | "When we are born we cry that we have [EMAIL PROTECTED] | come to this great stage of fools!" | W. Shakespeare