i see.

i would have thought/hoped that windows would remake the cifs session when 
windows comes out if standby, using cached credentials, so  other than being a 
bit slow to start,  cifs to the plan9 server should come back.

i guess i am missing something.

-Steve


On 3 Mar 2018, at 23:32, hiro <[email protected]> wrote:

>> also, i would have thought you could build a windows drawterm which also
>> included the code from exportfs so you could use 9fs and aan to get at the
>> files on your windows box.
> 
> we don't use exportfs for this any more, but yes, i already use the
> equivalent feature for this direction.
> i want to also be able to use the windows file explorer to access the
> 9front server through drawterm somehow (opposite direction), because
> then the cifs mount doesn't get killed by window's inability to keep
> the network connections running. 127.0.0.1 (drawterm) should always
> stay up, and drawterm would take care of the rest :)


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