[TriLUG] recommendations for mounting NTFS shares under Linux

Chris Merrill cmerrill at nc.rr.com
Thu Oct 25 13:44:07 EDT 2001


I worked in a mixed environments where I mount Windows shares on Linux
(and vice-versa) almost everyday and access them throught out the day.  
I have never encountered this problem.

Geoffrey Douglas Purdy said:
> " Additionally, smbmount seems unable to handle the soft disconnects that
> NT typically performs after 15 minutes of inactivity: Walk away from a
> Linux system connected to an NT box for a while, and when you come back
> and try to access the NT share, you might get a broken-pipe message and be
> unable to unmount the share. So, you might want to unmount connections
> that will be inactive for any time at all."

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Chris Merrill
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