Automatically re-establishing remote windows shares

fraz · 04-26-2006, 01:08 PM

Hi,
Hopefully just a quickie.
I am serving files from a winxp to a linux machine using samba. If the windows machine goes down as they inevitably do, I lose the share in linux. Can I get samba to re-establish this share automatically once it becomes available again, without manually intervening?

Apologies if this has been covered or the information is available elsewhere but please tell me where.

Thanks in advance
Fraz

acid_kewpie · 04-26-2006, 03:23 PM

if this is on fedora, then i'd urge you to have a look into autofs. using a more dynamic mounting method, the share is mounted on use and unmounted after inactivity, so if it goes awaol, net time you use it it will remount it as normal.

fraz · 04-26-2006, 04:59 PM

will do thanks