Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > Any insight appreaced, I'm off to search for answers... > > I once had a problem with smb shares mounted on a Linux box disconnecting > after a certain length of time. my (hackish, but functional) solution, was > a cron job to do an 'ls' on the Windows share every few minutes (redirected > to /dev/null). > > this kept me from doing backups of an empty directory. :) Why not just use an automounter?