[TriLUG] recommendations for mounting NTFS shares under Linux
Geoffrey Douglas Purdy
gdpurdy at unity.ncsu.edu
Thu Oct 25 11:47:58 EDT 2001
Thanks to all who responded with suggestions.
smbmount works nicely. I initially had some difficulties but it was just
a matter of filling in the proper values for the domain controller
and wins server in /etc/samba/smb.conf.
One follow up question. I found the following article 'Connecting
Linux Workstations to Windows 2000 Servers' (
http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8490 ) helpful.
However, it mentions,
" Additionally, smbmount seems unable to handle the soft disconnects that
NT typically performs after 15 minutes of inactivity: Walk away from a
Linux system connected to an NT box for a while, and when you come back
and try to access the NT share, you might get a broken-pipe message and be
unable to unmount the share. So, you might want to unmount connections
that will be inactive for any time at all."
So far I have not had any problems with "soft disconnects", but I've only
connected for a short (~20 min.) time. Has anyone else observed the
problem described above?
-Geoff
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Mount the NT drive onto the Linux box via smbmount.
> I use this method to backup some of my NT servers.
>
> Jon
>
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