I'm backing up a bunch of Windows machines onto a linux box (FC3, Samba 3.0.8-0.pre1.3) and it works great... UNLESS some idiot disconnects or shuts down his computer while I'm running the backup, and then my rsync command hangs while trying to copy the files from that computer's smbmounted drive to the server. Isn't there some sort of way to soft mount the samba share or something or allow a timeout or whatever? -BJ Quinn
John H Terpstra
2005-Jan-04 20:37 UTC
[Samba] Question about soft mounting samba shares...
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 13:28, BJ Quinn wrote:> I'm backing up a bunch of Windows machines onto a linux box (FC3, Samba > 3.0.8-0.pre1.3) and it works great... UNLESS some idiot disconnects or > shuts down his computer while I'm running the backup, and then my rsync > command hangs while trying to copy the files from that computer's > smbmounted drive to the server. Isn't there some sort of way to soft mount > the samba share or something or allow a timeout or whatever?Sorry, you seem to have your wires crossed! smbfs is a Linux kernel facility and has nothing at all to do with Samba. smbmount is only a front-end to the Linux kernel based smbfs interface. The smbfs technology is mostly obsolete and has been replaced with the CIFSFS toolset. Again, CIFSFS is NOT a part of Samba and for any issues you should identify and address your issues with the correct mailing list. Cheers, John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.