[Samba] Re: samba a la linux question?

[David Collier-Brown]

  I think you probably should ask this on the
samba at lists.samba.org list [redirected], as this
is the development list. 
  Hint: keepalive deals with part of this.

--dave


 --- "Behnam, Saman" <Saman.Behnam at tuev-sued.de>
wrote: 
> Dear Mr. Mrs. 
> 
> When a windows share is mounted in to a linux-share
> running samba and anohter windows mashine accesses
> the linux-share...then all is ok. But when the
> mounted mashine crashes for example (if running ms
> windows its not rare ;) and the another windows
> mashine trys to access the linux-share with the
> unmounted but crashed windows.....so the request
> hangs!
> 
> Is there a workarround for this? e.g. mechanism that
> samba checks the mounted windows mashine and if not
> arrichable then force umount and when arrichable
> then mount it!
> 
>  Thank u verry much!
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards 
> 
> Saman Behnam
> 
> Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
> 
> TÜV AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
> 
> Abt.: TAP-GAR
> 
> Daimlerstr.11
> 
> D-85748 Garching 
> 
> Tel: 089 32950-849 / 859 Fax: 858
> 
> mailto:saman.behnam at tuev-sued.de
> 
> http://www.tuev-sued.de <http://www.tuev-sued.de/> 
>  

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