[Gllug] Samba shares woes!

[Rich Walker]

Simon Morris <simon.morris at cmtww.com> writes:

> 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. 

Although I've had it bite me in the ass a number of times...

:-<

cheers, Rich.

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