Hello. My linux box mounts a Windows filesystem as an smbfs entry in /etc/fstab. I found that, if the hosting Windows box goes down for some reason (Imagine that!), any process on the Linux box that was accessing it hangs forever in state D and cannot be killed.
How can I configure smbmount so that it will timeout and return errors rather than hang forever? I have scoured the web for answers, and see some for NFS, but not for SMBFS. This is a serious problem because my Linux box also runs a Samba server. Sometimes a Windows box is accessing a directory on the Samba server that is actually symlinked to a directory hosted via smbfs on another Windows box. If something happens to it, then the smbd server gets hosed and starts indefinetly spawning children until I reboot the Linux box, which I cannot do remotely because the shutdown gets hung trying to unmount the smbfs! What a mess!!! Please, can anyone help? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
