SMB/CIFS unable to activate storage after share restarted

sloppyjoe

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Apr 13, 2024
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Hi!

I've been running Proxmox about a year and absolutely love it. However, I've been having a problem since I first installed that I can't solve (I've searched here and Google too).

Proxmox (fully updated 8.1.10) is connected via SMB/CIFS to a Windows box that has most of my additional storage. When I restart the Windows box Proxmox immediately notices that the share is disconnected and keeps trying to reconnect (which is great), however even when the Windows machine comes back online, Proxmox doesn't seem to be able to reconnect.

Here are the logs:
Code:
Apr 13 08:49:01 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:49:16 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:49:16 pve pvestatd[1001]: status update time (5.230 seconds)
Apr 13 08:49:27 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:49:27 pve pvestatd[1001]: status update time (5.223 seconds)
Apr 13 08:49:36 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:49:36 pve pvestatd[1001]: status update time (5.182 seconds)
Apr 13 08:49:44 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:49:54 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:50:02 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:50:14 pve pvestatd[1001]: storage 'hercules' is not online
Apr 13 08:50:24 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:50:24 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:50:33 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:50:33 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:50:43 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:50:43 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:50:53 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:50:53 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:50:54 pve pvedaemon[518112]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:50:54 pve pvedaemon[518112]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:03 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:51:03 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:13 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:51:13 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:23 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:51:23 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:33 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:51:33 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:43 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:51:43 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:53 pve pvestatd[1001]: got timeout
Apr 13 08:51:53 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:51:57 pve kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\10.10.7.121 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting...
Apr 13 08:52:01 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:52:11 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:52:21 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:52:31 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable
Apr 13 08:52:42 pve pvestatd[1001]: unable to activate storage 'hercules' - directory '/mnt/pve/hercules' does not exist or is unreachable

At around 08:51:33 the windows machine is back up but Proxmox doesn't seem to be able to reconnect to it.

The only way I've found to resolve this issue is to restart Proxmox itself.

Is there a way to get Proxmox to automatically reconnect to the share?

Thanks in advanced for any help!

Joe
 

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