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Beelzebud

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From: Illinois, U.S.

Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 154

Is there a way to configure mount.cifs timout settings?

Right now I have an annoying issue.   I have two entries in /etc/fstab for mounting my windows 7 shares.   I do not have them set to automount, I just use a user alias in bash to mount them.  Here is the problem.   If the Win7 machine is offline, and Arch has the two shares mounted, when I shut down the Arch machine it has to wait for 200 seconds for mount.cifs to timeout and let the system finish shutting down.   Also, there are random times where Win7 will reconnect to the network machines, and this also causes the 200 second timeout to initiate on the Arch machine, leaving any shared folders (or movies I'm watching) unresponsive for the 5 minute timeout.   

Does anyone know of a way to reduce this timeout?   I could live with 20 seconds or something, but 5 minutes is ridiculous.  I see no configuration options for mount.cifs or this timeout anywhere obvious.

Last edited by Beelzebud (2011-09-17 02:37:17)