Hai, Can you show you resolv.conf. You could try to set the rotate and timeout option if not set already. and how are you handling the mount retries? Greetz Louis Op 19 mrt. 2019, om 15:01, Shaun Glass via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> schreef: Good Day, We experience the following when we have outages or perform disaster recovery exercises. Our DFS Shares come from a Windows cluster with 2 servers, each one in a different location. When the server that we have active connections to goes offline, the server has an issue connecting to the second server. This even happens under a controlled shutdown and startup situation. If we persistently try and force the server to mount the share it will eventually connect to the second server ... this is time consuming and annoying. Here is an example from '/etc/fstab' file : //our.domain.com/PATH/TO/SHARE /target cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credfiles/credentials,uid=user,gid=group,_netdev 0 0 Servers Vary between RHEL 6 / 7 and SLES12. We patch quarterly so various software packages are never that out of date. Can anyone provide some assistance in this matter ? Much appreciated. Regards Shaun