A workaround for SMB share disconnects
When mounting an SMB share from a Windows 2003 server, I ran into the problem that after about five minutes, the share would disconnect and I would not be able to reconnect to it at all. My system log would say things like this:KernelEventAgent24 tid 00000000 received VQ_NOTRESP event (1)KernelEventAgent24 tid 00000000 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/xxxx', from '//xxxx;xxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx$', not responding KernelEventAgent24 tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s) loginwindow23 1 server now unresponsive kernel smb_iod_reconnect: The reconnect failed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx! error = 4 I found a solution, after trying many other things. It is probably due to a bug in the network software of Apple or the server. I use a laptop which normally uses a wired connection with fixed IP as a first choice, but there is wireless connection in the building, too, and my laptop pulls an IP number from the DHCP server at the same time via ...
published on Friday, the 4. April 2008, macosxhints