[Samba] samba and automount

[Tim Allen]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Trey Nolen wrote:

> 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?

Unfortunately not. It's a global parameter.

Tim Allen


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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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