[Samba] does smbmount use keepalive and/or smb.conf?

[Giulio Orsero]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:47:10 -0700 (PDT), Richard Duran <duranr at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Thank you for the URL. That will be a good reference
>in the future, but for now, I feel that some questions
>remain unanswered.
>
> 1. Does smbmount use a keep alive time setting?
> 2. Does smbmount use the smb.conf file?
>
I posted the url because it has smbfs patches for "receive timeout
..avoiding D state for offline servers" which seemed your problem.
Don't know the answer to you questions. But, if you rephrase them to use
"smbfs" in place of "smbmount" (which is an helper), I'd say
1. with patch
2. no

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