Am Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:01:57 +0000 schrieb "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org>:
> On March 6, 2017 5:14:39 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 2017-03-06, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] > >and > [...] > >> > >> Did something on the Windows side change? > > > >Probaby, but I've learned not to ask questions like that. They never > >get answered, and it just causes problems when it is revealed that > >the client having problems is a Linux machine. > > > >> Maybe force Windows down to a lower SMB version or reduce/disable > >> SMB client side caching? > > Windows sharing is designed as a 'link when used' option. Not as a > permanent mount like Linix treats it. > > Even 'mounting' in Windows doesn't mean the share is actually > accessed. > > A windows CIFS server will not be reliable enough for long term > mounting. With Samba, it does work more reliable. (In my experience) > > For this reason, I use KDE/Dolphin to access CIFS shares. It is > closer to how Windows expects the shares to be treated. Then it may help to use automount with a somewhat low timeout, maybe also setup cachefilesd and mount with fsc option. This is how I use my office shares on a 2012 R2 server via VPN. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.