[Samba] smbmount hangs Linux if Windows server goes down
Howard
hccebay at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 2 05:08:09 GMT 2004
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?
More information about the samba
mailing list