[H-GEN] Help please: can't remove directory

[David O'Brien]

hi
I have a directory (skylab) in my  home directory, under which I have a couple 
of subdirs. skylab is the name of another machine on my network and I happily 
mount and umount, etc. One of these dirs I want to delete, but for some 
reason cannot, as follows:

[root@ david]# rm skylab/images
rm: cannot lstat `skylab/images': Input/output error

I don't know why. I tried -f and -r and -rf but I don't want to mess with that 
too much, especially as root  :-D

skylab is a Win2000 Server machine
the linux machine is running Mandrake 9.0

I can create shares and mount, etc., as I like. I wonder if this images 
directory is "stuck" as the linux box from which I'm mounting powered down 
with it still mounted, and the share no longer exists on the Windows machine.

[david@ david]$ ll skylab/
ls: skylab/images: Input/output error
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x    1 david    david        4096 Mar 21 22:08 home/  #sharename on 
skylab

[david@ david]$

Any ideas?
Thanks a lot

David