Re: [9fans] Fwd: ubiquitous environment?

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

it just keeps on breaking. it does reconnect after you press cancel or
ok (i don't remember), but it always keeps a while and when you have
files open or transfers happening you have to start again when
everything below breaks.

On 3/4/18, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> i see.
>
> i would have thought/hoped that windows would remake the cifs session when
> windows comes out if standby, using cached credentials, so  other than being
> a bit slow to start,  cifs to the plan9 server should come back.
>
> i guess i am missing something.
>
> -Steve
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> On 3 Mar 2018, at 23:32, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> also, i would have thought you could build a windows drawterm which also
>>> included the code from exportfs so you could use 9fs and aan to get at
>>> the
>>> files on your windows box.
>>
>> we don't use exportfs for this any more, but yes, i already use the
>> equivalent feature for this direction.
>> i want to also be able to use the windows file explorer to access the
>> 9front server through drawterm somehow (opposite direction), because
>> then the cifs mount doesn't get killed by window's inability to keep
>> the network connections running. 127.0.0.1 (drawterm) should always
>> stay up, and drawterm would take care of the rest :)
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