similar to: smbmount : how to set timeout on connection

Dear all, I'm having a problem with smbmount and could you please kindly help ? I'm desperately searching a smbmount config equivalent to NFS "soft" mount option, but I cannot find any. I'll smbmount a Windows share as smbfs on a Linux box. I hope remote file access requests sent from smb client can timeout if CIFS server is down. i.e. I don't want the r/w file

Hello fellow Samba users, I have a problem setting permissions using smbmount on my Linux /GNU computer I have read/write access rights on NT Server computers, and on a Solaris 2.5 machine, running Samba. My Linux computer has Redhat 5.0, and runs kernel revision 2.0.33. SMBFS support is installed as a loadable kernel module. The smbfs client software is version 2.0.1, and was installed with

Hello. My linux box mounts a Windows filesystem as an smbfs entry in /etc/fstab. I found that, if the hosting Windows box goes down for some reason (Imagine that!), any process on the Linux box that was accessing it hangs forever in state D and cannot be killed. How can I configure smbmount so that it will timeout and return errors rather than hang forever? I have scoured the web for

Hi! How do i set how long smbmount should attempt to connect a share before timing out? I have a couple of shares set for automatic mounting (in fstab). Problem is: if i move my computer to another network, were these shares aren't available, my init scripts are delayed for several minuits while smbmount (ordered by the "mount -a" command in the init scripts) attempts to connect

All, This is my first posting to any of the Samba mailing lists. I've been a lurker for a year or so as I've been working on a VFS for the company I'm working for. We're currently using Samba 3.0.10-4 on RedHat AS 3 Update 4 and we are observing the following problem both with our VFS and with shares residing in a Linux directory on the Samba server. If a directory has lots of

First I will apologize for posting my patch here if this is not the correct place to post a patch. I know that smbfs is being removed, but we still use it and need it to work. We have a patch to contribute back to the smbfs in the 2.6 kernel. I have noticed multiply posts on this issue and we have basically patch the smbiod.c to fix the reconnect bug in 2.6 Something we did for our patch is

Hi I am trying to create a boot diskette(s) that is able to mount a remote drive (on an NT server) using smbfs. I have tried doing this, but I can't fit smbd, nmbd, smbmount and smbumount all onto my root disk. What is the minimum set of files required for smbfs to work? What docs should I read to help me? I am running RedHat 6.2 (with a custom kernel v 2.2.14, ntfs and network card

Hi! Machine "A" linux with samba Machine "b" win98 Here's the problemfree section: Connection b -> a = no problems seeing characters like "?,?,?" Connection a -> b, using smbclient = no problems seeing characters like "?,?,?" Here's the problem section: Connection a -> b, using mount -t smbfs = characters like "?,?,?" is

Hello, I'm looking for some (user & technical) feedback on a change I'm considering on how mount and smbmount works together. The current way mounts are done are: mount -t smbfs ... => smbmount ... => smbmnt Possibly without the mount step. smbmount stays as a daemon and reconnects when asked (unless it crashes). Problems: - Some mount options should affect if the mount

I have been mounting a Windows machine with no problems whatsoever for the year. Suddenly this afternoon it won't mount any more. No recent changes have been made on the machine. The only thing I've done recently is load and get Thunderbird working. Most things are done as user not root in KDE xterms. My Linux machine is Slackware Linux 10.0. There is an iptables firewall that

Hi all, A while ago I posted about needing to access samba shares on the same machine that the samba server was running on. Someone posted a script to mount the shares and all was well till I upgraded my PC hadware and had a small accident :( I have tried modifing /etc/init.d/samba adding ... mount -t smbfs //127.0.0.1/common /mnt/samba/common -o

I am running a Samba fileserver (Redhat//pandora/pub /mnt/pub smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/smb.auth,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=666,dmask=777,debug=9 0 0 9 kernel: 2.4.20-24.7, smbd ver: 3.0.0). I am now trying to mount a share on this server on another Linux machine (SuSE 9.1 kernel 2.6.5-7.108, smbmount ver. 3.0.7). I would like to have the share automattically mount on startup using an /etc/fstab

Hello all This patch tries to remove a few bugs from smbmount. It would be nice to get some testing+feedback on this from others using smbmount and possibly get these things fixed for the next release of samba. It does the following: * Change lib/debug.c to allow changing your mind on being interactive. A second call to setup_logging should now replace the effects of a previous call. (hmm,

I use samba in a very limited application to mount smb shares using smbmount. I have a simple script I use that mounts several shares to a variety of mount points as a specific user on my system. The script passes username, password, share, mount point, domain information to each call to smbmount. This script worked perfectly under redhat 8.0 but since upgrading to redhat 9 I have had some

I've got a win98 laptop and a linux box. On my linux box, I smbmount a directory from the laptop. Alas, win98 boxes crash a lot, and I move the laptop a lot... to and from work. If the laptop crashes or if I move it with a shared directory mounted on my linux box, that mount gets "Stuck".... it's present in /etc/mtab but when I cd to it and do an ls it says: 243 emily ~>ls

Hi Sorry about the misplaced Q I tried to use a script that when user will logon to the machine he will mount to smb mount (instead of fstab if it's problem) I sow on several places the option to use on /etc/fstab this line //server/share /mnt/home smbfs noauto,user 0 0 and I tried to put on script smbmount //server/share /mnt/home -o username=$USER and get libsmb based programs

Hi, I am searching smbmount command on centOS 5. On, CENTOS 4.4, I used it as follows to backup data to a window PC. I want to do it on CentOS 5 now. mount -t smbfs -o ip=192.168.5.225,username=mailbackup,password=secret //server/mail_backups /mnt/maildaily I can not issue such command on centos 5. When I try , It gives below error. [root at mail ~]# mount -t smbfs -o

Hello All! There was a problem: then the samba server goes down, the smbfs tries to reconnect only once. Then the server returns online the smbfs dont restore connection and say "I/O error" without keeping trying to reconnect. I found that there is no problem in smbfs kernel module. Each time it got CONN_INVALID, it send SIGUSR1 to smbmount daemon, which has to restore connection. The

I've been working with smbfs/smbmount the last few weeks to allow my linux log processing server access to the logs on our NT servers. The problem is that after a period of time all the smbfs mounts become invalid with either one of two errors. When you do a 'df -k' to view the mounts you see the following: samba:~# df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jones, Rich wrote: > RedHat 6.0: > works: smbmount //win95machine/c /mnt/c > failed: smbmount "\\win95\c" -c `mount /mnt/c -u 123 -g 456` > > Slacware 7.0: > failed: smbmount //win95machine/c /mnt/c > failed: smbmount "\\win95\c" -c `mount /mnt/c -u 123 -g 456` > > Error Msg: Device does not