[TriLUG] recommendations for mounting NTFS shares under Linux

[Geoffrey Douglas Purdy]

The directory mounted using smbmount has remained connected since last
Thurs. without any "soft disconnect" issues.  At this point, I'm going
with the assumption that the problems detailed in the article
were limited to older versions of smbmount.



On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:

> I've never experienced that problem, but then I always mount the drives,
> backup the files, and then dismount the drives.  One of my compatriots at
> work (Jaimie Livingston) runs Linux on his workstation and samba mounts
> shares (and leaves them up).  He doesn't seem to have any problems.
>
> Perhaps this has already been accounted for in the latest versions of
> smbmount?
>
> > One follow up question.  I found the following article 'Connecting
> > Linux Workstations to Windows 2000 Servers' (
> > http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8490 ) helpful.
> > However, it mentions,
> >
> > " 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."
> >
> > So far I have not had any problems with "soft disconnects", but I've only
> > connected for a short (~20 min.) time.  Has anyone else observed the
> > problem described above?
> >
> > -Geoff
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > > Mount the NT drive onto the Linux box via smbmount.
> > > I use this method to backup some of my NT servers.
> > >
> > > Jon
>