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Re: (un)mounting smb shares



Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 23:38:
> Consider using autofs to automatically mount and umount the shares on
> demand.

Thanks for the pointer, maybe I'll try it out when I try out the 2.6
kernel...

> Set a short timeout -- a few seconds (2-3) isn't too short -- to allow
> you to quickly free resources and keep you from waiting for mount
> time-outs.  One limitation of legacy MS Windows is to allow only a
> limited number of clients access to a fileserver (IIRC, 10).  Each
> GNU/Linux mount counts as a user instance.

This machine is not a legacy Windows server, but a Suse 9.0 box serving
files via Samba... I have asked them why I can't mount them via NFS
(other UNIX boxes in the computing centre do so), but got no response :(

joerg

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