Hi all,

I have a script which mounts a windows share, sends some files, then unmounts the share. There are probably 30 or so workstations in the list, but there seems to be a 15 - 30 second delay when mounting the share.

I think the command syntax is fine, but I'll paste it here either way.
Even when I run the command by itself (i.e. Not through the script) it takes the same amount of time to mount (15 - 30 seconds).

Any ideas on how to speed the mount up...or can anyone recommend an alternative to sending files to a Windows share (ftp, scp etc are not an option).

Cheers,
Kristijan

Is this for NetBSD or Linux? The cifs filesystem is superceding the smbfs filesystem. However, it looks like you may have an old kernel so that may be what you need to use, and I don't think this would effect the mount time.

Do the hosts have static IP addresses? If so, perhaps using the IP address instead of the hostname may speed things up. Or maybe if the computers were listed in /etc/hosts and /etc/lmhosts. I'm guessing that it is the hostname resolution that is taking a long time.

The Samba3-HOWTO.pdf document may have other ideas in in the troubleshooting chapter.


There are two ouches that I noticed.
First, you should use a credentials file instead of having the username and password in a script.
Second, sharing the C$ drive is a very bad idea. Unless you are distributing system files, windows hosts shouldn't have system directories shared.

Thanks for the reply jschiwal.

The host OS is Red Hat AS4 (it's a work machine, so that's why it isn't listed in my profile). A uname -r shows I'm running 2.6.9-34.ELsmp kernel. The Windows workstations themselves have dynamic IP addresses, so DNS has to be used. The DNS requests themselves are almost instantaneous. When I ping one of the workstations, it resolves and replies straight away.

I never knew about the credentials file...I'll do some googling on it, thanks for the heads up. As for the C$, the reason for this is file updates happen all over the C:\ directory and sub-directory. Specifying each directory and sub-directory would be a bit of a pain.

Cheers,
Kristijan