RE: Samba can't keep NT shares mounted

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:47:11 +0400 (MSD)


In <01BF02A2.01494600.srhodes@cpinternet.com> Steve Rhodes (srhodes@cpinternet.com) wrote:
> If it makes you feel any better, I have experienced the same problem. It
> will also trip you up if you have a large number of files to transfer
> between machines. Basically, you will lose files randomly, which can be
> pretty tough to track down. I didn't have time to check it out, so we
> installed Hummingbird NFS (yuk) on the NT box and used good old nfs mount
> as a work around.

> This is a pretty serious problem, as you say, and I found it hard to
> believe that no one has fixed it.

Why you expect that it's fixed if nobody tried to fix it (AFAIK). Smbfs is
[mostly] unmaintained.

> Part of the issue might be the official Samba team refuses to support
> smbmount. This is a real shame, as it could be a big advantage for Samba
> if it worked reliably.

The whole problem is that there are no real maintainer for smbfs at all.

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