HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

Troubleshooting and Error Messages

Troubleshooting FAQs

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Troubleshooting FAQs

This section includes commonly asked questions about HP CIFS.

How to Shutdown the Daemon with cifsclient stop

You should never kill the daemon process directly. Although HP CIFS

tries to unmount all mounted shares, it may not be successful and the

stale mounts will become unusable and cause problems. The correct way

to do it is with cifsclient stop.

Refer to “Step 4, Starting and Stopping the Client” in chapter 2 in this

manual for more detailed information about cifsclient stop.

What to Do if the Daemon Terminates

If the daemon terminates, all shares served by HP CIFS will

immediately become unusable. Every access will hang until the NFS

timeout (conﬁgured in the conﬁguration ﬁle) elapses. You can probably

get away without rebooting if you immediately terminate all processes

using the mounts, change all current directories from within the mounts

and then use the cifsclient force_umount <mountpoint> command to

unmount the stale mounts. Report the event to HP Technical Support

and describe how the problem can be reproduced.