[linux-cifs-client] cifs: Filesystem unmounts automatically after some time

[Suresh Jayaraman]

On 04/24/2010 01:18 AM, Christian Eggers wrote:
> # uname -r
> 2.6.34-rc5-desktop
> 
> Samba server: Debian with Samba-3.2.5 (also other OS seem to be affected)
> 
> # modprobe cifs
> # mount -t cifs //server/privat /mnt -o username=christian
> 
> When I mount a remote Samba share with the previous commands, the share gets successfully mounted and is shown in the output of the "mount" command. After some minutes the share is automatically unmounted without any user intervention. Is this a wanted feature 
> or a bug?
> 

I remember seeing a similar bug which was due to buggy version of dhcpcd
and I could never manage to reproduce this with dhclient.

Could you try reproducing the problem with a static IP or using dhclient?

Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman