[cifs-discuss] Client dropped connection

[Peter Tribble]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Robert Thurlow <robert.thurlow at sun.com> wrote:
> 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?

Windows 2003 or R2, I think.

> The client won't break the connection,
>  but Windows servers do inactivity timeouts.

Seems a plausible explanation.

> I think my Windows
>  XP at home times out after 15 minutes without traffic.
>
>  We do not automatically reconnect yet, unfortunately.

Is that covered by bug 6587713?

Thanks,

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/