hello,

this is my first post so please bear with me if i am not seeing the obvious.

i am running latest ubuntu on my desktop machine and debian sarge on my fileserver. now of course i want to access my mp3 on there using samba. after i spent a day googling and following various hints, i finally managed to make amarok scan my sambashares ( i followed the advice to mount it with fmask=444,dmask=555). now nearly everytime (it worked exactly once), amarok will freeze during the collection scan, regardless of what database i am using. it has neither worked with mysql nor with sqlite.
thing is i once got it working partly, but as soon as i tried to add another folder to the collection and rescan the whole shebang, it will freeze again. i ve been trying to find out what's causing the freeze, and ended up with either nothing or the smbiod process on the desktop machine going insane which forced me to reboot (gah, and this is linux!). as i also could see smberrors in the syslog, i went to try to mount it via cifs. this resultet in the collection not building at all, basically the same like smbmounting it without fmask and dmask. even setting file_mode and dir_mode with cifs didn't help.

so now i am pretty much at the end.

basically three questions for now:

1. anything i could try with smbmount that i overlooked?

2. how can i get cifs working?

3. is there any other way to solve these issues?

thx in advance!


edit: forgot to mention that it's not a specific file that's causing the freezes, there is always a different one in the log.

Try mounting based on this line:

//192.168.1.7/F /media/MediaPc/F smbfs dmask=777,fmask=777

This gives read and write access for Linux folder. Also try to have full read and write access on the sharing machine.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=337482&page=5

P.S. I am a Linux noob.