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A Windowsserver provides a network directory called data via CIFS/SMB protocol. The data folder is mounted on a Linux client with password and user authentification.
Sometimes the drive gets disconnected, but is available again after a second. I do not know exactly why, but it seems to be because of the Windows server or a broken network component.
How can I make Linux reconnect automatic as soon as possible?
I'd recommend mounting it via autofs. This is a service that will mount a directory on demand (for example if you cd into it or ls it) and unmount it automatically after a user defined timeout.
Install the autofs package for your distribution (by the way, remember to include your distro in your questions since an answer's details may depend on it).
Add the following to /etc/auto.master
/media/[my_server] /etc/auto.[my_server]
Where /media/[my_server] is the mount point of the share.
Create a file /etc/autofs/auto.[my_server] with this line:
[any_name] -fstype=cifs,[other_options] ://[remote_server]/[share_name]
[any_name] - is it literally the string [any_name], or is it just some arbitrary piece of text?
[my_server] is the parent of the mount point, and [any_name] is the actual mount point (eg. the share name).
[my_server] and [any_name] would be?
Aug 18, 2018 at 19:25
To add to the autofs answer, I recommend doing the the way it is described here:
https://andrewaadland.me/2017-06-18-autofs-nfs-and-archlinux-key-not-found-in-map-sources/
That is:
auto.master is always /-./etc/autofs/auto.server.So in my case, /etc/autofs/auto.master contains:
/- /etc/autofs/auto.nas
And /etc/autofs/auto.nas contains:
/home/rkitover/nas -fstype=cifs,credentials=/home/rkitover/.nascredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 ://nas/rkitover
This works for me!
Just to offer another angle, a current solution is doing this with systemd, as described here:
https://anteru.net/blog/2019/automatic-mounts-using-systemd/
_netdev The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access (used to prevent the system from attempting to mount these filesystems until the network has been enabled on the system).