Well, I just spent a few frustrating hours the other night, & I wanted to help prevent the same from happening to any of you. I was trying to use SMBFS to mount a Samba share, & it just wasn't working. Samba was set up on Chaucer (whose IP is 192.168.0.25), & I was sharing the music directory, & I could connect via smbclient, so I thought everything was good. I tried mounting with this line: smbmount //192.168.0.25/music /home/scott/chaucer_music/ -o credentials=/home/scott/credentials,fmask=644,dmask=755, uid=1000,gid=1000,workgroup=HOME Seemed to work just fine. But Konqueror wouldn't display the contents of /home/scott, & just showed a blank screen (!), while ls ~/ on the CLI finally, after a minute or so, gave me this error message: ls: chaucer_music: Input/output error The only solution was to unmount the share: sudo umount /home/scott/chaucer_data Unfortunately, sometimes that didn't even work, & I had to pull out the big guns (normally, this is ...