| Keith via plug on 22 Oct 2020 12:52:54 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Linux mount of Windows share keeps dropping |
Hi, At work my desktop runs ubuntu 18.04.5. We're encouraged to keep most of our work on a Windows share (the "H drive") because it's automatically backed up and can be mounted anywhere. I mount the share with the following command (with obvious changes): sudo /sbin/mount.cifs //path/to/share ~/H_drive/ -o username=<username>,dom=<dom>,uid=$USER,forceuid,gid=$USER,forcegid,dynperm,nobrl,vers=1.0 This worked fine for about a year, but lately it's been disconnecting constantly after just a short period of idle. As you can imagine it's quite frustrating and disruptive having to constantly umount and re-mount the drive many times a day. I've opened a ticket with our IT department, but since we're primarily a Windows shop there's a good chance they won't know the answer. (Plus there's a 3 day turnaround for help tickets!) In the meantime I was wondering if anyone might have run into this problem and if they have any ideas for fixes. Thanks. Walt
I haven't run into that in a awhile and I would have to know more
about the environment but typically with Windows I end up using
"broad sword" and inelegant tactics because root cause solutions
are often not available (or definitive). For the record, the last
time I saw this happening, it actually was a network issue.
Windows is a bit sensitive in that regard so this could be a
server side issue. There are a couple of registry settings I had
to roll out to my Windows 10 users last year to address a similar
issue (Windows 10 clients losing their network connections to a
Samba 4 server). As a I recall that mostly was a compliant about
performance issues (e.g. why is the network so slow?) and not an
outright disco.
What I would ask/suggest is have you tried cron'ing or doing an
infinite loop script to remount for your share shorter than your
observed disconnect time?
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