Hello, I searched the archive but only found some discussion regarding "wait indefinitely for responses" from 2010. I hope this isn't a redundant question! I have a CIFS entry in my fstab to a remote server on my VPN, so it's not available when I'm not connected to my VPN. When not connected, mount -a hangs for about 5 minutes before finally failing with "connection timed out". If I connect my VPN in the middle of that wait, and verify it's connected, mount still hangs for that entire timeout before failing. If I try again, it succeeds. Is there any issue with kill -9 for the mount -a process, in order to more quickly retry? I was planning to automate it, and to keep retrying until mount succeeds. Basically, I need quicker failure than 5 minutes, and I can't find any CIFS timeout settings. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, - Matthew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
