reply to my own post: a little bit of more research on the server side and reading cifs documentation let me point out the problem:
cifs.ko starts a thread (cifsd) for each connection to a server. this thread is killed if a user gives a wrong password which means every mounted cifs-share is gone. $ echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI #gives good information after doing what was described in my last post. dmesg | grep kill fs/cifs/connect.c: cifsd thread killed so this means it is not related to samba but to the cifs module. hope this helps anyone. br thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
