[Gllug] Filesystems again :)

[Alain Williams]

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.

-- 
Alain Williams

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