[Samba] samba and automount

[Trey Nolen]

You mention putting it in the global section. Could deadtime be specified on
each share, thereby only being specified for the drives that need it? Or
will that not work for some reason?

Trey Nolen


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> The only way I've found around this is to add
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> deadtime = 1
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> to the [global] section of smb.conf. This drops connections after a
> minute. Then there's the automount timeout to add to this. The downside is
> that all connections to the server are broken, so users see red crosses
> against all their timed-out mapped drives when browsing. There's probably
> a performance hit in having to re-establish connections as well, so I put
> our automounted drives on a separate server.
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> Tim Allen
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