samba share setup on linux clients

[jabr-iwcNaMm7aMIiq3RsQ1AnAw at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM, jbk <jbk-SkCWf5sxpj0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> This is working except if the server is off or the network
> is down, then the user login will hang waiting for the
> shares to mount.
> So I would think a user script in ~/bin would be the thing
> to do. In this script I would want to test if the server is
> available and then if even better if the share is available.
>  Then mount the share if success else die gracefully
> without hanging the system. Even better would be to raise a
> gnome window with the message "Share <share> not available.
> Is the server on?"


You seem to have the right idea there.

    ping -w 1 -c 1 SERVER

ping the server winth only 1 packet, and terminate ping after 1 second
regardless of whether it got a response yet. So ping won't hang for a
long time if the server or network is down.

    smbclient -NL SERVER

List shares on the server, don't prompt for a password. If you get a list,
then the server must be up.


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