[Cialug] Windows Share Problem

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Aaron Korver wrote:
> We are exposing some folders on a Windows 2003 server and then have added an
> entry to mount them in the fstab on our SUSE server.  The problem is that
> the Windows 2003 server marks the shared folder as disabled if there is no
> activity in the folder (this is strange, but it is what our Windows admin's
> are telling me).  When this happens, the linux mount can no longer write to
> the folder and the only way to get the connection back is to reload fstab.

when I was troubleshooting a flaky windows share, many sources suggested 
using autofs

http://wiki.autofs.net/

sorry, I don't recall if it worked or not :(

-barry