Mathew Johnston wrote: > > I have a mixed windows/linux network, and am looking to do file sharing > over my LAN. Samba seems pretty good, except that mounted smb shares > (in linux) sometimes lose connectivity. It really liked to do it when > xmms crashed as I tried to add a directory to my playlist that was > inside an smb share. If I tried to get a directory listing or change to > the smb moutned directory, it would say input/output error. Has anyone > seen this sort of problem before? I'd like to use samba, as I dont think > that nfs is really very well supported in windows. Ideas? :) > > Thanks, > Mathew Johnston >
When I was getting those errors, it turned out to be a bad (kinked) network cable on my linux box. HTH -- Morgan He who sacrifices functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither.
