Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: >--- Yashpal Nagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 exactly know . >>Is there any nice other way around to get sync again smb shares in >>such >>cases? >> >> > > >Firstly put it under /etc/fstab - you have better control over the >mounting and unmounting process including unmounting shares while >shuttign down. > > > You could have better adminsitration in ideal cases but i have been very annoyed with this fstab/vfstab which screams loud when your nfs server is down. my both the boxes are away i can't quit if nfs server is down..and its waiting indefinite to server to come up, anyway....
>Secondly I think your problem stems from the fact that smbfs like nfs >will retry indefinitely if a share becomes unavilable - this can have >serious implications on the server. The way around is to understand how >the hard and soft mount options works. Read the details under the nfs >section in mount and decide which one is more important. Remember hard >mount is the default and that is what you would usually want unless >your apps really know how to handle unrealible network file systems. > > is the hard mount option by default? if yes then it does't seems to be working with smbfs beacuse when problem occurs of hanging i just umount and mount again it becomes fine... googling & gllug have suggests to have autofs should work ..with some problem at some cases. Regards Yash _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
