Re: SAMBA -- automatic remounting

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Keith Keller wrote:

On 2006-03-30, Ignoramus27088 <ignoramus27088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I do want though, is to ensure that these mounts would survive
reboots of the server and that they would auto-reconnect if something
goes bad temporarily. (one of these computers is for a 4.5 year old
kid, so I cannot expect him to do any system maintenance yet).

So...

1) How to detect when a samba mount is stale.

2) Is there some system flag to automatically remount the shared
drives, or do I just need to write a little "stale detection and
remounting" script? What is the right way to do it?

I'm surprised nobody has suggested automount. It won't necessarily
detect a stale mount, but it will timeout a mount (so that it won't be
affected if the mount is not needed when the server reboots), and will
automatically mount when a request is made for the automount point. It
works great in my NFS setup, but it's not fstype-specific (it can do
local mounts as well as network mounts).

That is what I thought the 'auto' bit in the mount command did..

Beware of the difference between these two fstab lines:

//server/share /mnt/somewhere smbfs auto,user=me 0 0
//server/share /mnt/somewhere autofs defaults 0 0

The first example will automatically mount the smbfs filesystem at boot time. The second example, where the *filesystem* type is specified as *autofs* is (I believe) what Keith was referring to when he suggested automount.
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