[webmin-l] Samba question - keeping the mount mounted

[Steve C. <cam...@cn...>]

I have looked through as much Samba literature as I can find, but cannot 
seem to find out why a mount that I have created using webmin from a RH EL 3 
box to a Buffalo Terrabyte NAS server does not stay mounted. It needs to be 
woken up, which it does on it's own whenever queried, but I have some 
applications that fail if it isn't available immediately when it looks for 
the mount. The NAS is a Windows box. All works well using the resultant 
mount when it is awake.

I realize this is OT for this list, but hope someone has run into this 
before. I can usually use a command before running the apps in a shell file, 
and it only needs to be something as simple as 'df' to wake it up, but on 
long running jobs, such as backups that create temp files before writing, it 
may go back to sleep before it can be re-awakened.

I see in my log files the following entries that are associated with the 
wakeup.

tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)  tdb(/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_lock 
failed on list 62 ltype=0 (Bad file descriptor)

But I have not been able to nail it down even with this information


Thanks for any help.

Steve Campbell
cam...@cn...
Charleston Newspapers