Re: Network mounted file systems periodically lose connection
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:11:35 -0600, Rob Brenart (TT)
<Rob.Brenart@tradingtechnologies.com> wrote:
> I have several network shares (windows) mounted as such
>
> //machine/share /mnt/mountpoint smbfs
> credentials=/credfile,rw,user,gid=sambawrites,fmask=0774,dmask=0774 0 0
>
> And on occasion the share just dies. I'm guessing the reason for the
> death is something to do with our network, maybe a hiccup, or the
> windows machine gets rebooted, or whatnot... in reality, I'm not too
> concerned with the why though. What I want is resiliency such that the
> links are immediately re-established. As it stands now, the mount
> doesn't get unmounted or any such thing, I just get incredibly awful
> performance if I try to access the share, and eventually it will timeout
> and fail.
What releases are you using? Are you running woody, sarge, sid, or a
combination of these (be specific)?
Please run:
uname -a (I assume smbfs support is enabled. include any additional
significant info)
dpkg -l smbfs (just the line it's on)
> Is there a way to make these auto-reconnect on demand?
Mine always has, when I was using it. (for days on end, again, it was
atleast a year ago)
Thank you,
Scott Edwards
Daxal Communications - http://www.daxal.com
Surf the USA - http://www.surfthe.us
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