[cifs-discuss] Client dropped connection

[Robert Thurlow]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> Running the client from build 86, I come back to
> my machine after a while and:
> 
> /bin/ls -l
> .: Transport endpoint is not connected
> 
> So the mount has disappeared - I get the same error from df.
> 
> I can't see anything logged anywhere.
> 
> OK, so I can umount it and it remounts successfully, but
> why did it go AWOL in the first place?

What was your server?  The client won't break the connection,
but Windows servers do inactivity timeouts.  I think my Windows
XP at home times out after 15 minutes without traffic.

We do not automatically reconnect yet, unfortunately.

Rob T