On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:03, James Pifer wrote: > I have a handful of machines running Linux (mostly FC3) and Windows (2K > and XP). On my laptop I have FC3. I'm having a lot of problems with > keeping drives "mapped" or mounted. Here's what I'm currently doing. > > On all the linux machines samba is installed, and my userid has admin > access to root so I can get to the whole drive and pretty much do what I > want. On windows I just use the admin shares. > > On my laptop I'm running autofs and have all the mounts setup in > auto.misc. Right now I'm using fstype=smbfs. The problem is that > sometimes the mount will get hosed up, maybe the other machine crashed > or was not accessible for one reason or another. When this happens I > have to try and figure out how to kill whatever process is hosing it up > so I can try to restart autofs. Sometimes I can do it, other times I > can't. When I can't have to logout or restart completely, very annoying. > > On a Windows machine it will not have a problem with the same share. > Windows appears to do a better job of handling this situation. It seems > to more easily reconnect automatically. > > Besides that problem, I've also had problems copying large amounts of > data over these mount points. I don't have any exact errors to quote at > the moment, but they fail consistently. > > I've looked at NFS as an option as well, but I've had permission issues > with that. I'd like to have full access on the drives. Creating a samba > share and granting admin access fits what I want. > > Can anyone suggest any better ways of doing this? I hate to compare it > to windows but on my windows machines I can map the same shares on any > of my other windows machines or Linux machines (using samba), and the > mappings are always accessible or reconnect once the machine in question > is available. > > Any help is appreciated. > > James > > <bump> Anyone suggest a better, more stable way of doing this? Thanks, James
