[Gllug] Filesystems again :)

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:50:11AM +0100, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:38:23AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:25:52AM +0100, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:13:05AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > > > I have found that a file system mounted from an NT box using smbfs has
> > > > problems if/when the NT box dies & comes back again ... the share isn't
> > > > remounted - this is one thing that NFS does. Are you saying that it
> > > > remounts cleanly for you ?
> > > > Admittedly the last time that I tried was a year ago.
> > > 
> > > i've not played with it in years, but is an auto mount deamon more
> > > what you are looking for?
> > > 
> > > there are at least two, and can mount and unmount FS on demand.
> > 
> > No, that is not the problem. automount just allows a file to be unmounted
> > when it has not been used for some time. It won't cure the problem when
> > the NT box goes away unexpectedly.
> 
> ok, so why are you using an NT box for a server then?

Not my choice ....

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Alain Williams

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