mount samba partition repeadetly

alaios · 08-21-2006, 05:28 PM

Hi to everyone i mount at boot time a windows 98 partition using samba. The problem is that sometimes the windows 98 pc needs to restart so i lose the mounted partition. Is it possible to do the samba to check all ttime when the windows 98 pc is back so to remount the partition? Thx a lot

alunduil · 08-21-2006, 06:03 PM

You could easily setup a cron job to do what you want, but if you only need the samba mount while you are working on something a shell script might be sufficient:

Code:

while ! mount sambamount; do sleep 5; done;

or

Code:

while :; do if ping <host>; then mount sambamount; fi; done

Experiment a little, and pick what suites your needs.

Regards,

Alunduil