So I have an Apache 2 Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS which has been working fine and now for no reason that I know the SMB share mount has stopped working. My /etc/fstab file is:
//**.*.*.***/********* /media/**** cifs credentials=/home/****/.smbcredentials,uid=www-data,gid=www-data,iocharset=utf8 0 0
And when I try to do ls /media/**** I get ls: cannot access '/media/****': Stale file handle
I can't understand why this happened and I can restart the VM and also do umount and mount -a to remount it and then it works for around 10/20 minutes. This wouldn't be a problem if it was just that I couldn't list the files in the mount, but Apache2 can't do that either and therefore it can't find the .htaccess file.
Thank you for your help!