Re: ncpfs: Connection invalid / Input-/Output Errors

[Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>]

schönfeld / in-medias-res wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your answere.

> Uhmm... then remains the question: Why should that happen on the first
> machine but not on the second?

Enable displaying of connection watchdog logouts on the server.  Do not
use 'intr' mount option.  Do not send KILL signal to the connection
which is waiting for reply from server.  If you are not sure that your
network infrastructure is fine, use 'hard' mount option to disable
timeouts altogether.

>>To see if this is your problem, insert some printk()s in the relevant
>>ncpfs code (depends whether you are using ipx or tcp/udp as to where)
> 
> Well - i'm using IPX. So where do i insert the printk()s? And what kind
> of printk()s should i insert? Please don't think of me as an idiot,
> but i'm just not firm with "kernel hacking".

Into 'ncp_invalidate_conn()', or better, into its callers.  One is in
__abort_ncp_connection (invoked for IPX connections when
__ncpdgram_timeout_proc fires), second is in ncp_do_request (if server
reports some problem, or if KILL signal is sent to the process).
							Petr