[olug] Auto remount a windows share when connection is broken

[Christopher Cashell]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:
> I am using smbmount to mount a windows share on my linux server.
>  Sometimes the connection gets severed somehow, and running umount and
>  smbmount again fixes it.

Take a look into AutoFS, the Linux Automount daemon.  You can use it
to automatically mount remote filesystems on demand, and unmount them
when idle.

>  -Ryan

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Christopher