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