[Gllug] Samba shares woes!

[Simon Morris]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:15 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote:
> Hi
> We use smbmount to mount certain windows shares as by rc.local on a
> Redhat FC3 box as:
> /bin/mount -t smbfs -o
> username=Administrator,password=xxx,uid=userid,gid=ftpusers
> //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/share /data/share/ &
> Now the problem is after sometime this get hanged due to either
> windows
> m/c gets rebooted or some time out don't know .
> 
> Is there any other way to get sync again smb shares in such cases?
> a automount dir for ftp dir would work ?

I would recommend autofs in this case. 

If your Windows server goes away for some reason there is less
likelyhood of this having an impact if you are only mounting the volume
when you need it.

Thanks

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