We have a network of win 98 boxes, 1 client NT box, and 1 Debian Linux box (2.4 kernal) doing file serving with Samba 2.2. The NT drive is mounted on the Linux box via smbmount command and shared through Samba. The Linux box is never powered down. The NT machine is powered down every night, and turned on the next morning. I've been leaving the NT drive mounted through this, and we havn't had a problem.
Is there a problem with doing it this way, or should we unmount the remote drive before powering it down? If so, what is the easiest way to do this, ie some shutdown script on the NT machine? Should I be using the autmount command?
Is there a problem with doing it this way, or should we unmount the remote drive before powering it down? If so, what is the easiest way to do this, ie some shutdown script on the NT machine? Should I be using the autmount command?