On 08 Apr 2002 21:38:22 -0500
Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:08, K Montgomery wrote:
> > I have a laptop that runs the netfs service on boot in order
> > to mount a remote Samba filesystem. However, being a laptop,
> > it's not always connected to the network.
> >
> > Can I make it so that if netfs fails to find the Samba server
> > on boot, it will attempt to connect repeatedly -- say, every 5
> > minutes -- in case I do connect to the network later? I have
> > a little shell scripting experience, so any suggestions
> > involving that are welcome.
>
> Create a script which will first check for the existence of your
> server and share ('smbclient -L //server', then parse the output
> to look for the correct share name). Then, if the server and
> share exist, run smbmount with the appropriate options to mount
> your samba server/share. Then, create a cron job that will run
> the script every 5 minutes.
Being the worlds slowest script writer. (wanna race... you'll
win!) I'd agree but do one thing different. Set a variables
initial value to 0 then if the mount point doesn't exist it trys
to run the mount. ( a while loop maybe ) Sleeps for 6 minutes and
trys again if it finds the mount it returns 1 and it exits. If not
it does it again and again.
>
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