Re: [Samba] does smbmount use keepalive and/or smb.conf?

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Duran
I posted the url because it has smbfs patches for receive timeout ..avoiding D state for offline servers which seemed your problem. Don't know the answer to you questions. But, if you rephrase them to use smbfs in place of smbmount (which is an helper), I'd say 1. with patch 2. no --

Re: [Samba] does smbmount use keepalive and/or smb.conf?

2002-10-18 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:09:21 -0700 (PDT), Richard Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for clearing that up. Since we are running kernel 2.4.18, and this patch appears to apply to 2.4.4, is it safe to assume that this patch need not be applied? No. I briefly looked at an 2.4.18something Red

Re: [Samba] does smbmount use keepalive and/or smb.conf?

2002-10-17 Thread Richard Duran
Thank you for the URL. That will be a good reference in the future, but for now, I feel that some questions remain unanswered. 1. Does smbmount use a keep alive time setting? 2. Does smbmount use the smb.conf file? Regards, -Richard Duran --- Giulio Orsero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16

[Samba] does smbmount use keepalive and/or smb.conf?

2002-10-16 Thread Richard Duran
Greetings, I don't know how common an issue this is as I haven't found much in the list archives that was helpful to me, so I'm hoping for some pointers. FYI, we have samba 2.3.3a-6 running on the 2.4.18-10 kernel. There seems to be an issue with smbfs mounts at times where connectivity may be

Re: [Samba] does smbmount use keepalive and/or smb.conf?

2002-10-16 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:43:30 -0700 (PDT), Richard Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be an issue with smbfs mounts at times where connectivity may be lost (e.g. Win share becomes unavailable) causing local processes such as lsof or ps, among others, to hang.