NAS share in office network makes long timeout in other networks

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Hi;

I am facing problems with long timeout when operating files (even those locally stored) in my home network (no shares, just wifi connection). I guess this might be caused by autofs set to mount NAS share (CIFS) located in my office network (works as a charm in the office network). Is there any chance to shorten timeouts in case autofs cannot find the specified mountpoint? I went through autofs man pages; could –negative-timeout <seconds> be the solution?

I cannot present openSUSE due to this out of office as anybody might think the system is incredibly slow. So as it is annoying.

Thanks in advance for any tips

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Look in /etc/auto.master

For example if you are mounting the shares under /mnt there should be a line like (mnt is probably a bad example directory to use, but I don’t generally do this so modify as needed):

/mnt /etc/auto.misc --timeout 60
Then your /etc/auto.misc should contain the appropriate line as well.

Just set the timeout lower (3 or 6 sec depending upon the speed of your office network?)

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Thank you d3vnull. Isn’t the timeout setting meaning the time to umount unused share? My current timeout=10.

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You can try MOUNT_WAIT in /etc/sysconfig/autofs - I got that from:


man auto.master
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The other question is have you disabled autofs away from the office to determine that is the “real” issue?


systemctl disable autofs.service
systemctl stop autofs.service
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Oh no, I haven’t. I’ll try at home together with –master-wait <seconds> parameter. I’ll let you know. Thanks

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A) active autofs does that issue
B) --master_wait=3 does the trick (I can go through local filesystem without lagging now)

That means big Thank you! for your assistance …

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Arrrgh; doesn’t mount the share in the office network. Seems the only workaround is manually stop autofs in terminal when changing networks …