[Samba] timeout after inactivity on mount.cifs
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
mail at webthatworks.it
Mon Feb 13 16:14:26 UTC 2017
Hi,
I'm trying to backup a directory on a Windows 2008 (fully updated)
I'm running Debian testing.
(kernel version: 4.9.6-3, mount.cifs version: 6.6)
I'm basically mounting a share with mount -t cifs and tar the content of
a directory.
I didn't have problems with old debian (probably sqeeze).
Now I occasionally get in dmesg:
cifs vfs: error -32 sending data on socket to server
and tar says
tar: /sharepath/: Cannot stat: Host is down
but then continue to archive the share
Sometime cd into the mounted path takes several seconds.
I've a script that every minute does
smbclient -A"$CREDENTIALS/credentials" -L IP > /dev/null 2>&1
to check if something is wrong with the Windows server or connectivity
but after several days running it, it hasn't failed.
It seems that mounting the share and immediately starting tar reduces
the chances to run into problems.
It looks like a timeout problem.
Is there anything I can check to circumscribe the problem or even better
solve it or does it look like a bug?
thanks
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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it http://www.borgonovo.net
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