Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:51:34 -0500 | From | Matthew Vanecek <> | Subject | Re: Samba can't keep NT shares mounted |
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Urban Widmark wrote: > > They don't refuse to maintain it ... > > --- > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:50:05 +1000 > From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> > To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.org> > Subject: Re: newbie: where and how to use smbmount with 2.04b ? > > > Somewhere in the documentation (don't remember exactly where) it > > states that smbmount is not really supported by the samba team so it's > > not enabled by default; > > It hasn't been supported by the Samba Team recently as no one on the > team uses it. The fact that it is Linux specific also doesn't help. > > I have, however, just voluntered to start maintaining smbfs (and thus > smbmount) so you can now consider it supported again. I've done quite > [snip] > > See? He is also listed in MAINTAINERS. > > I guess he is a busy man, and I'm sure he'd appreciate all of our help > solving this and other smbmount/smbfs problems. Yes, I know, time ... > > /Urban
In the README-smbmount file in the top dir of 2.0.5a:
Subject: smbmount / smbmnt / smbumount =============================================================================
The Samba-Team wishes to make known that the above programs are a part of the SMBFS software package for the Linux operating system. They are very definitely NOT part of Samba and are in general NOT supported by the
I couldn't find the snippet referred to by Urban, but I *did* note the heading in smbmount.c:
Unix SMB/Netbios implementation. Version 2.0. SMBFS mount program Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1999
Maybe there's hope if Tridgell has the copyright on it.....
On a more constructive note, what in NT/samba combination would cause the connection to drop, if everything is working normally? By normally, I mean, none of the machines are rebooted, net connections all fine, etc. I would really like to have a place to start poking at, even though I'm no expert C hacker. If there were some documentation around describing the sequence of events that happens while a samba share is mounted (i.e., after the initial mount, when it's trying to stay mounted), those would be helpful, as well. Maybe some flowcharts or something?
This thing has been a nasty bug for a long time. We need to fix it, regardless if it's "samba's problem" or "smbfs's problem". A little solidarity here would, I think, be a good thing.
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