on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:23:26PM +0100, Joerg Johannes (liste_joerg@gmx.de) wrote: > 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... In which case you don't have to worry about the concurrencies limit. > 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 :( NFS has its bugabears too. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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