Windows share mounted on Linux fails after some time

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Published on 2010-08-12T09:18:35Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 22:55 UTC
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I have a Windows share mounted on a Linux server (RHEL4) using a mount command like this:

mount  -t smbfs //server_ip/foldername /servername/foldername -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD -o gid=users,dmask=777,fmask=777,rw,noatime

It stays working for weeks at a time but sometimes stops working, at which time I unmount it and mount it again. This works but the share would have been unavailable for some time before I noticed it in log files.

Is there some way that the share can be automatically remounted when it fails?

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