[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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