Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:39:41 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com> To: "Snuk the Great" <snukthegreat@impressiveinteractive.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba wont mount if my access point on windows is active Message-ID: <df9ac37c0608132239j1b0d79baodf1e7fe59b2469cd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7187c79e0608131811h1e57ee94i42b43a3e6f525bef@mail.gmail.com> References: <7187c79e0608131811h1e57ee94i42b43a3e6f525bef@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/13/06, Snuk the Great <snukthegreat@impressiveinteractive.com> wrote: > Hello, > This has me puzzeled. Tonight I could not find out why my freeBSD machine > could not mount a windows share. Whenever I tried it the shell would just > freeze. After a few hours I tried disabling my wireless Access Point on the > windows machine and now I was able to mount the mount the share. After this > I tried a bunch of things to make mount work even when the Acces Point was > on, like changing the IP adress of the AP, but no luck. > First I figured it might be a port issue, so I tried forcing Samba to go > through a different port, but again no luck. My guess is that your shell isn't freezing, it's just in a very long wait state. MS Windows, and samba, tend to do this when they are waiting for name resolution. > Let me explain my setup a bit: > My pc and the freeBSD machine are in a LAN. > This LAN has acces to the internet. > My pc has a WLAN card which server as a Wireless Access Point. > I use my pc to share the LAN with my Access Point, so this as well has acces > to the internet. > I am out of ideas what to trie/do. So I was hoping you guys can give me a > nudge in the right direction. > Check your name resolution first. Samba and windows both have tools to troubleshoot NetBIOS name resolution. Do you have a WINS server? If you haven't configured a WINS server samba/windows will use a broadcast to ask "the network" what names are available, this can be problematic on almost any network. Try appending a `&` to the end of the mount command, or press CTL+z after you start it to send it to the background. You should get your shell back so you can watch the samba log files. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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