cp yields "Bad address"?

[homer_3]

I am running FreeBSD in a VM with the host OS being Windows. I mounted a folder I shared in Windows using mount_smbfs. In that folder, I have a file (a.out). When I do "cp a.out b.out" I get a "Bad address" error. Anyone have any idea why I'd get this error?

 

[homer_3]

I found that it will let me do

mv a.out b.out
cp b.out a.out

weird.

 

[utkonos]

Try unmounting and remounting the smb share. I've found that the error disappears when you do that. The error seems to occur after the smb share has been mounted for a long time (24+ hours).

I'm using FreeBSD 8.2p3, but I feel like it is a problem on smbd's end on the server rather than the client end.

I realize that this is a late reply, and you've probably already fixed your problem, but this message comes up #1 in a google search for this error message. So, I figured I'd help all the people following accepted troubleshooting procedures.