On March 3, 2017 7:49:27 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >For the past 10-15, I've been mounting a handfull of directories that >reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked find. > >About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and >work as usual as long as you keep using them. AFAICT, if they sit >idle for "a while" (tens of minutes, maybe an hour), they freeze up. > >After that, trying to access them hangs, and then eventually reports >"host is down". Except the host _isn't_ down. If I do an >unmount/mount it works instantly without complaint and the mounted >directory is fine again -- for a while. > >I don't think I've changed anything relevent on my Gentoo box (the >CIFS client), and it's probably something on the Windows end of >things. > >But, I was hoping somebody might have seen something similar and knows >what to do about it. > >Here's a typical line in /etc/fstab: > >\\winhost\projects /winhost/projects cifs >netbiosname=<usrname>,workgroup=<wgname>,username=<usrname>,password=<passwd>,uid=<usrname>,gid=users,noserverino,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,noauto >0 0 > ><usrname> is the username (same on Gentoo and Windows) ><wgname> is the Windows workgroup name ><passwd> is the Windows server password for <usrname> > >Any ideas?
My guess would be some timeout setting on the server killing the login. Maybe there is a keep-alive option in the mount? Otherwise a cronjob that keeps 'touch'ing a file on one or all of the shares would avoid this happening. If the windows admin doesn't like that option, have him undo whatever he changed. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
