What is the default retry interval of Samba (CIFS) shares in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • What is the default retry timeout interval of CIFS shares?
  • How to change the retry or timeout value of Samba?
  • When connection to a Windows server is lost, Linux SMB clients try to re-mount the share and have their accounts locked due to security, can we make the timeout longer?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Samba aka CIFS shares
  • Windows file server using SMB (optional)

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