[mythtv-users] smbmount from XP to FC4

[Mark Hetherington]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:50 pm, Seth Art wrote:
> Hi All.  I wonder if there is a better way to do what I am doing.  My data
> is all stored on my XP machine.  I use the following command after bootup:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o mythtv,password=xxxxx //xp/MyMovies /mnt/MyMovies
>
> However, if my XP machine loses power or network connectivity this share
> rarely, if ever, recovers.  Worse yet is that I usually get an I/O error
> while trying not umount it.  I've tried killing the [smbiod], killing all
> the mount.smbfs processes, but sometimes the only way I can recover from
> this is to reboot and remount.

I've found this too, smb mounts do *not* degrade gracefully. The best 
workaround I found is to use "autofs", so that it unmounts whenever your not 
using it, thus avoiding ugliness if there are connection problems while it's 
mounted. I think this is really actually a problem in the way the smbfs code 
deals with an uncontactable file server.