On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Frank Carreiro wrote:
> Recently I've had more and more users require individual mounts to
> various NT / win2k servers from our Linux app servers. I've written
> several shell scripts that mount to the users home directory a windoze
> share (different scripts for different servers/shares) and it's been
> working fine since October 2000.
>
> Lately my users would notice the mount point directory would simply
> "disappear" when they performed an ls on their home directory. We could
> cd into it and pwd shows that it exists and we are inside the mount
> point however we cannot dismount the server nor delete the mount point
> (says it's busy). Of course we're trying this above the mount point (in
> case anyone was wondering). Rebooting the server restores it to normal
> operations (not desirable though). I've gone through the services and
> killed that user's processes yet we still cannot see that mount point
> nor dismount the NT server (still says it's busy).
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has seen this problem before. We are running
> RedHat 6.2 kernel SMP 2.2.14. I'm thinking since smbfs is a kernel
> module I should upgrade perhaps to 2.2.18/2.2.19. Holding off on 2.4.x
> (for now).
>
> Thx
>
> Frank
>
>
It sounds like deadtime timeout on the NT server the share is mounted
from. You may have to look into the keepalive option, or the
SO_KEEPALIVE socket option. I don't have personal experence with this,
but I remember it comming up on the Samba mailing list some time ago...
Mikkel
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