On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Trey Nolen wrote: > I'm running Samba with automount to automatically mount CDs in a server. > These CDs need to be changed periodically, so I wanted to use automount so > that they could be changed by the users fairly easily. We use logon scripts > to map the CDs to drive letters when users logon. Unfortunately, it seems > that having a drive mapped is treated like the drive is being used, so as > long as there is someone logged into the system, automount will not unmount > the drive. The only way we can change the CDs is to have everyone log out, > wait for the timeout (or unmount it manually), change the CDs and have > everyone log back in. Does anyone have a better way (one that will work)?
The only way I've found around this is to add deadtime = 1 to the [global] section of smb.conf. This drops connections after a minute. Then there's the automount timeout to add to this. The downside is that all connections to the server are broken, so users see red crosses against all their timed-out mapped drives when browsing. There's probably a performance hit in having to re-establish connections as well, so I put our automounted drives on a separate server. Tim Allen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
