Sticky shares?

[Michael P. Blinn]

My question has to do with mount more than samba, though it may be related.

I'm attempting to mount two NT4.0 shares to two local directories on my
samba server -- I want to do this so I can use Amanda to do backups of both
my Linux and NT boxes. I run into two problems:

1: When I do the mount command, I receive the error "Unable to load cp437",
though the mount apparently succeedes -- I assume this is a codepage that is
not enabled by default..?

2: The mounted path eventually becomes unmounted, say if I leave it
overnight. My Linux box still thinks it is mounted, however, and backups
crap out without attempting a remount.

Would it be better to use autofs to manage these things?

-Michael Blinn
 People Places, Inc.