smbfs problem

smbfs problem

[Michael Blaustein]

I mount a remote samba share using autofs.  I can read and write to
that share (including subdirectories) using various linux programs
(vi, gedit, etc.), but not emacs (21.3.50.1 with bidi 0.9.1).
Sometimes emacs' dired will show the share's directory listing, more
often not.  But no subdirectory of the share can be listed nor any
file opened with find-file.  Suppose the share is known as
"//an.ip.address/share" and the subdirectory is called "subd".  The
kernel (2.6.10) reports in the logfile:
    "kernel: smb_lookup: find //subd failed, error=-512"
and I have to kill emacs.

Presumably this is a problem for emacs, since other programs deal
with this share as expected.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Re: smbfs problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.08.2005 um 06:37 schrieb Michael Blaustein:

> Suppose the share is known as "//an.ip.address/share" and the 
> subdirectory is called "subd".

Isn't this remote directory locally mounted at /volumes/remote?

Passing to Emacs the directory name //an.ip.address/share it would 
probably try to access that remote directory via ange-ftp or tramp, but 
as you write in your first sentence, it is already mounted on your 
linux box. So I would M-x dired /volumes/remote RET or wherever this 
SMB share is mounted at ...

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