[Bug 372737] [NEW] Samba Chokes Randomly

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I believe this is connected to

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/209520 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/207072

but I'm flummoxed. Sometime in the last week, I went to open a Samba
share on my desktop, one that I use almost every day, and got an error:

Unable to mount location
Failed to mount Windows share

This is the text of cusvr.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=CU SVR
Type=Link
Icon[en_US]=gnome-panel-launcher
Name[en_US]=CU SVR
URL=smb://{username}:{password}@cusvr/{share}/directory
Icon=/home/amanda/Graphics/icons/little owl.ico
GenericName[en_US]=

The next day, it worked fine. A few days later, it stopped working and
didn't seem to come back. So I started sniffing around. Per advice at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/209520

I tried editing smb.conf, though I couldn't figure out how to reload it,
since there's no entry for "samba" or "smb" in my /etc/init.d/ -- I was
able to connect by making a new connection in "Connect to Server." The
next day, "Connect to Server" was decidedly not working, so I tried:

sudo smbmount //cusvr/{share}/ /mnt/cusvr -o
username={username},password={password}

Which *did* work, and once I'd mounted the share, I was able to use my
desktop shortcut again. Great! This morning, I tested the desktop
shortcut and it did work. Great! And then an hour later I actually
needed to use it and ... nope. Now the error reads:

Couldn't display "smb://cusvr/share/folder".
There is no application installed for this file type

But it worked an hour ago! So I tried smbmount again, which worked
yesterday. Today it tells me:

mount error 5 = Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

So: this isn't working. And I can't figure out why not. I can't even
tell where to look for errors.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.2

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete


** Tags: nautilus samba
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Samba Chokes  Randomly 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372737
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