Re: SAMBA -- automatic remounting

Ignoramus27088 wrote:
On 30 Mar 2006 07:46:37 -0800, Michael Wulff <mwulfff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
to ensure that these mounts would survive reboots of the server
put this in /etc/fstab:

//servername/share /mount/point smbfs
auto,username=user,password=pw,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

Thanks. It works very nicely when I just type mount. I hope that it
would also auto-remount the partition if the server that hosts these
shares is rebooted. (is that the case?)

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I think the auto bit means 'I will mount if someone needs to access the drive' ..

Not sure whether SMB is stateless ..suspect not..so if the remote goes down the system will timeout..and drop the connection. There would then be a delay in reconnecting and mounting when the drive access was needed.

I *think* - could be very wrong..
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