Samba client connection retries?

mhouston100 · 02-15-2012, 08:56 PM

Hi Guys, hopefully a quick easy one!

Basically when maintenance is done on our servers whewn I'm not around, they are usually brought up in the wrong order. This leaves our RHEL server that connects to Windows shares with Samba through fstab without any connections.

Is there built in options for Samba for retries etc? I've been looking and looking but not really seeing anything.

Alternatively is there any downside to just creating a cron job to run 'mount -a' every 10 minutes or so?

cbtshare · 02-16-2012, 01:08 AM

by brought up I assume you mean a restart...so what I do is to add the mount commands to a script and add

Quote:

source scriptname

to rc.local