Re: [PLUG] Linux mount of Windows share keeps dropping

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks Joe! I didn't know about either automount or credentials files!
It sounds like it's exactly what I was looking for. I'll give them a
try tomorrow.

Walt

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 07:21:08PM -0400, Joe Rosato via plug wrote:
> Put it automount. If a network issue and you use it sparingly, it will
> mostly stay unmounted.. and then mount when you use it. Saw this while
> waiting in car (parked) so did not read the whole thread, if this was
> touched upon. Do a search, you just need to put the login/passwd in a
> credentials file.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 5:15 PM Walt Mankowski via plug <
> plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:55:36PM -0400, Keith via plug wrote:
> > > Ah... ok, the version thing definitely was/is a thing but I haven't had
> > to
> > > use that trick in at least 10 years.  Structurally speaking what I'm
> > going
> > > after is a refreshing of stale links.  The network connection is at a
> > lower
> > > level than the user so, for instance, I use this same technique for
> > > "healing" SIP carrier connections for VoIP servers.  All you are doing is
> > > making sure the connection is available.  Your applications will have no
> > > knowledge of those lower level lower details.  Either apps can access
> > files
> > > or not so this type of thing is benign (i.e. it fails silently if you are
> > > still connected).  Playing with the version numbers may yield some relief
> > > but typically with that solution it was about forcing the share protocol
> > > down to an earlier version.  1.0 might be too old so you may need to use
> > > something higher.
> >
> > This morning I tried mounting it with every version listed in the
> > manpage for mount.cifs. 1.0 is the only one that worked.
> >
> > Aside from that I'm not sure I understand what it is you're suggesting
> > I do. Remounting it requires entering both my local password (for
> > sudo) and my network password, so it would be tricky doing that via
> > something like cron.
> >
> > Walt
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