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A Windowsserver provides a network directory called data via CIFS/SMB protocol. The data folder is mounted on a Linux client with password and user authentification.
Sometimes the drive gets disconnected, but is available again after a second. I do not know exactly why, but it seems to be because of the Windows server or a broken network component.
How can I make Linux reconnect automatic as soon as possible?
Jonas Stein
Posted 2013-06-12T08:03:18.947
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I'd recommend mounting it via autofs. This is a service that will mount a directory on demand (for example if you cd into it or ls it) and unmount it automatically after a user defined timeout.
Install the autofs package for your distribution (by the way, remember to include your distro in your questions since an answer's details may depend on it).
Add the following to /etc/auto.master
/media/[my_server] /etc/auto.[my_server]
Where /media/[my_server] is the mount point of the share.
Create a file /etc/autofs/auto.[my_server] with this line:
[any_name] -fstype=cifs,[other_options] ://[remote_server]/[share_name]
terdon
Posted 2013-06-12T08:03:18.947
Reputation: 45 216
2What is [any_name] - is it literally the string [any_name], or is it just some arbitrary piece of text? – detly – 2015-02-08T08:22:38.717
Oh, right, [my_server] is the parent of the mount point, and [any_name] is the actual mount point (eg. the share name). – detly – 2015-02-08T08:33:33.047
@detly yup, exactly – terdon – 2015-02-08T13:19:33.410
2Could you provide a real example of what [my_server] and [any_name] would be? – bswinnerton – 2018-08-18T19:25:42.337
1Try mount it with the _netdev option, it might help if you having network problem on the Linux client. – Intenso – 2013-06-12T08:59:23.953
1@Intenso Can you provide a source for this? The man page said:
_netdev The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system).– Jonas Stein – 2013-06-12T18:16:56.347