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dko
Asked: 2016-03-03 13:25:21 +0800 CST

Samba mount keeps timing out

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I have several mounted drives to a windows share on an ubuntu server machine.

//WindowsFileServer/Media /mnt/Media cifs credentials=/home/drew/.smbcreds,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

//WindowsFileServer/Media2 /mnt/Media2 cifs credentials=/home/drew/.smbcreds,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

//WindowsFileServer/Plex\040Optimized /mnt/Optimized cifs credentials=/home/drew/.smbcreds,uid=108,iocharset=utf8 0 0

After around 24 hours, I'll go to /mnt and run an ls command and the console hangs. The programs that try to access files in the mounted locations timeouts. A reboot temporarily resolves the problem.

What could possibly be causing this?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    So I changed 2 shares to use a guest account and the third I removed the space from the share name. Now things are working great. If I had to guess I'd say it was the space in the share name that caused the issues. My new /etc/fstab file looks like.

    //WindowsFileServer/Media /mnt/Media cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

//WindowsFileServer/Media2 /mnt/Media2 cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

//WindowsFileServer/PlexOptimized /mnt/Optimized cifs credentials=/home/drew/.smbcreds,uid=108,iocharset=utf8 0 0
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