stale NFS handle

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:49 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I mounted a drive on a server via samba on a client (/mnt/Backup) .
> I then changed smb.conf on the server to reference a different path, and
> now my client complains that there is a stale NFS handle on /mnt/Backup.
>
> Is there a way to fix this problem without rebooting?
>

Hi Joel...

I had similar experiences with NFS. You can try to shutdown the NFS daemons 
and then restarting them. The best suggestion I have for you is some 
hind-sight... It's always best to shutdown the NFS daemons before you make 
your config changes. :')

NFS literally drove me nuts. Best bet sofar, if you can stand the permissions 
mangling is switching to samba. You'll be impressed with the speed of samba 
3.0 compared to NFS any version.

Cheers.

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